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Control

«A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.»
«Control is never achieved when sought after directly. It is the surprising outcome of letting go.»
Author: James Arthur Ray | About: Control
«Contrary to the parlor-room Pershings around [Washington], we have a fully integrated multi-service unified command structure.»
Author: John F. Lehman, Jr. | About: Control | Keywords: multi, unified, unify
«If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.»
Author: Mario Andretti (Race driver) | About: Control | Keywords: fast, under control
«Hold the fort, for I am coming»
Author: Philip Bliss | About: Control | Keywords: forts
«Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.»
«Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.»
«Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.»
«He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.»
Author: George Orwell (Essayist, Novelist) | About: Control, Future, Past, Politics | Keywords: controls
«A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.»

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