We've turned a blind eye to Chinese economic activity, the manipulation of the renminbi, the dumping, the unfair trade practices. We've turned… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Conspiracy theories are ways for someone to understand what is going on in the world and try to restore some sense of… — Oscar Auliq-Ice Junior Copy Share Image
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Love can be used to drain people. Through eye contact people send a cord out to drain you long distance. Through sexual… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
There is a way to again be in real time with the universe, but it is not through force, imagination or manipulation.… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends…the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
“As Lynn writes: "What angers me is the loss of control. At any moment someone could come to me, be dressed the… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She’s fulfilled her obligation, assuaged her conscience by finding me in the hallway and giving me the chance to freak out, and… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
All existing art was religious until perhaps a hundred years ago. Within that there's obviously been lots of room for manipulation. I… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements,… — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image
The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later. — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They're beautiful and sad… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
Although knowledge of how things work is sufficient to allow manipulation of nature, what humans really want to know is why things… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Since we don't use any type of currency manipulation schemes - we have a floating exchange market - we are very glad… — Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Copy Share Image
In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture.… — Massimo Vignelli Copy Share Image
The industry will say whatever it needs to say to get you to do what they want you to do. The manipulation… — Raye Copy Share Image
So sometimes it is an outright manipulation like that, but most of the time I'm just, I'm creating a mood that is… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most… — Patrick M. Byrne Copy Share Image
When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity. — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts,… — Arne Tiselius Copy Share Image
“To use the Manipulation Matrix (figure 36), the maker needs to ask two questions. First, “Would I use the product myself?” and… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
''Just say your prayer and don't ask anything from god, otherwise he'll not give you anything.'' superb manipulation !! Don't ask but… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation. — Bruce McDonald Copy Share Image
All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Problems that seem under control through manipulation tend to reappear somewhere else, but with greater severity than they were before.” — Andreas Moritz Copy Share Image
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