Control Quotes
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The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is possible that all the distinctive achievements of the species can be traced to that one genetic change.
B. F. Skinner
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For a long time growing up, I thought that everything happens for a reason and it's kind of already written. But as I've grown and learned various things, I think that the most important moment is the one that you're in, and that's the only moment that matters, that you can really control. The future is unknown, and the past is history.
Christen Press
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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
Orson Scott Card
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First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.
Anthony Kennedy
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I knew when I was diagnosed with cancer the only thing I could control was what I ate, what I drank and what I would think.
Kris Carr
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Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.
Marcus Aurelius
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When you encounter some problems, if you point your finger at yourself and not at others, this gives you control over yourself and calmness in a situation, where otherwise self-control becomes problematic.
Dalai Lama
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It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
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This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.
F. L. Lucas
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By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.
Chris Chocola
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Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill
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I'm a control freak. And more so now that I have children.
Mariella Frostrup
