#controls

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority. ↗

— John Sununu

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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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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 had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake. ↗

— Dick Cheney

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We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see. ↗

— Joichi Ito

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The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media. ↗

— Tony Campolo

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I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls. ↗

— Kent McCord

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The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes. ↗

— Norman McLaren

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