#nip

If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#equations #four #manipulation #missing #only

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#both #change #does #essential #even

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that. ↗

— John Perkins

#been #built #cheating #economic #empire

God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#even #everywhere #extends #father #god

God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present. ↗

— Little Richard

#god #omnipotent #omniscient #present

Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#because #been #before #difficult #done

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud. ↗

— Boyle Roche

#bud #forming #him #i #i see

I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize. ↗