#trolling

With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#anonymous #free-speech #identity #internet #trolling

Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing ↗

— John Paul Warren

#controlling #leadership #pastor-john-paul-warren #leadership

I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#difficult #every #everything #goes #i

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#controlling #dreams #escape #free #into

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#controlling #environment #politics #your

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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I am all for controlling guns. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#controlling #guns #i #i am

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#amazingly #argue #because #behavior #capable

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts? ↗

— Raymond Holliwell

#controlling #our #thoughts

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ↗

— James Lane Allen

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