"He who knows much about others may be……" — Laozi
"He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
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1,065 Quotes by Laozi
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More Controls Quotes
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There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
— Aeschylus
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
— Sitting Bull
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.…
— Benjamin Carson
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You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we…
— Dick Cheney
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Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls…
— William J. Clinton
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President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a…
— William J. Clinton
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Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty,…
— Alan K. Simpson
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The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from…
— John Hughlings Jackson
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The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls…
— Sun Tzu
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I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about…
— Wilma Mankiller
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere
— John Donne
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