#troll

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#controlling #environment #politics #your

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#controlled #deal #equipment #experiments #failures

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#continuing #controlled #defeat #face #humanity

It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#advantage #changing #common #contribute #controlling

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#homes #interested #others #own #people

My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie. ↗

— Vera Wang

#bit #controlled #extremely #flawless #hippie

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#among #arbitrary #arbitrary power #civilization #degrees

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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I am all for controlling guns. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#controlling #guns #i #i am

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

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