#controlled

If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

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Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#demanding #escalation #follow #must #passivity

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests. ↗

— Criss Jami

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Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

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White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

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I am pretty controlled I have to say. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

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I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#controlled #environment #feel #film #film set