#dictated

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture. ↗

— Holly Near

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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

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But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. ↗

— Adam Johnson

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