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manipulated

«I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.»
«Even when we do not create children's fears, when they come to us with fears ready-made and built-in, we use their fears as handles to manipulate them and get them to do what we want»
«Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.»
«Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features»
«For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.»
«Man can be scientifically manipulated»
«Despite the government's attempts to manipulate the vote, it does seem clear that the people have voted for change.»
«I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.»
«Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. In everything man has accomplished, we have only manipulated nature into doing what it is.»
«Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate»