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It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.
Henry Charles Carey
Freedom
World
Seen
Country
Control
Every
System
Gigantic
Disappears
Over
Most
Obtain
Gradually
Which
England
Therefore
Slavery
British
But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.
Henry L. Stimson
Nature
Man
Dangerous
Old
First
Control
Think
Too
Step
Instead
Merely
Over
New
Concepts
Forces
First Step
Fit
Revolutionary
Bomb
There are universal shapes to which everybody is subconsciously conditioned and to which they can respond if their conscious control does not shut them off.
Henry Moore
Control
Everybody
Respond
Shapes
Does
Subconsciously
Conditioned
Off
Which
Them
Conscious
Shut
Universal
Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really tested. For human operators in control of a supposedly infallible system, complacency and overconfidence can take over, and caution may be thrown to the wind.
Henry Petroski
Technology
Wind
Control
Down
Complacency
System
Only
Take
Thrown
Emphasize
Over
Dock
Supposedly
Vulnerability
Leaves
Tested
Caution
Infallible
Selling
May
Human
After
Really
Product
Companies
Play
When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can.
Henry Rollins
Day
Try
Single
Whatever
Control
Down
Every
Seven
Carrots
Find
Ginger
Week
Road
Days
Single Day
Fresh
Calorie
Juice
Hand
Off
Diet
Literally
Wherever
Afternoon
Really
Every Single Day
My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.
Hermann Maier
Attitude
Myself
Pressure
Control
More
Put
Edges
Learned
Different
Ski
Racing
Less
Keep
Now
The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer.
Hideo Kojima
Control
Total
Over
Viewer
Painter
Showing
You can control and censor a child's reading, but you can't control her interpretations; no one can guess how a message that to adults seems banal or ridiculous or outmoded will alter itself and evolve inside the darkness of a child's heart.
Hilary Mantel
You
Heart
Darkness
Will
Reading
Control
Guess
Evolve
Inside
Seems
Adult
No-One
Message
Alter
How
Banal
Itself
Child
Censor
Ridiculous
Her
Interpretations
I work out a lot, and I had to control my diet to be fit.
Himesh Reshammiya
Work
Control
Out
Had
Lot
Fit
Diet
Work Out
I'm so entranced by what unfolds in front of the camera. It seems wonderfully out of my control.
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Control
Out
Seems
Entranced
Camera
Wonderfully
Front
Unfolds
Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves.
Hope Solo
Control
Every
Way
Athlete
Nerves
Help
Routines
Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
Howard Rheingold
Control
Participation
Openness
Surveillance
Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young people learn how to manage information streams and control the ways they deploy their attention.
Howard Rheingold
Time
Learning
People
Parents
Control
Young
Thinking
Spend
Ways
Neither
Attention
Schools
Instrument
Learn
How
Nor
Manage
Any
Deploy
Deciding
Information
Young People
Communicating
Use
Helping
Fundamental
Streams
They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.
Hutton Gibson
Government
Religion
World
Church
Control
Strongly
Attacked
Take
Over
Over It
Doctrine
Catholic
Catholic Church
Ultimately
After
Why
Rock music had its own constituency, its own steering wheel. It was beyond the control of the establishment, and we saw TV as the enemy.
Ian Gillan
Music
Enemy
Own
Control
Saw
TV
Steering
Had
Beyond
Rock
Rock Music
Wheel
Establishment
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.
Ian Rankin
You
Try
Crime
Control
Difficult
Enough
Characters
Plotting
Weave
Unruly
Part
Simply
Red
Soon
Most
Dealing
Linked
Begins
Any
Pattern
Them
Themes
Novel
Elements
Multitude
Need
Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.
Ian Ziering
Best
Great
You
Somebody
Control
Every
Rejection
Else
Rate
Only
Like
Know
Because
Audition
Go
Up
After
Hollywood
An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
Ice T
You
Somebody
Master
Party
Control
Say
Rap
Only
Crowd
Rock
Ceremonies
Your
Who
They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.
Iggy Azalea
You
Creative
Somebody
Control
Else
Say
Insane
Having
Could
Never
Obsessed
Pictures
Like
Know
Because
How
Just
Much
Your
Creative Control
Paint
They Say
Need
I didn't want anyone to have control over how people saw me. I wanted to have that power myself.
Indya Moore
Myself
Me
People
Power
Control
Saw
Over
How
Want
Wanted
Anyone
There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
Iris Chang
Government
Pure
Country
Nation
Control
Way
Enterprises
Spirit
Seems
Because
Still
Government Control
Much
Capitalistic
Engaged
Communist
Whole
I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.
Irving Penn
Work
You
Few
Control
Too
Tried
Variables
Outside
Studio
Failed
Know
Narrow
Times
Depart
Quite
Really
Many
Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
Irwin Redlener
Control
Consistently
Immigrant
Factors
Disadvantage
Outside
Highly
Vulnerable
Due
Children
Grown
Level
Fragility
Momentum is building for the creation of a shared future, one that is more egalitarian, inclusive, and respectful of the environment - a future that ultimately offers greater possibilities for personal development and control over our individual lives.
Isabelle Kocher
Future
Building
Control
Creation
Inclusive
Our
Respectful
Possibilities
More
Individual
Shared
Environment
Development
Over
Greater
Ultimately
Offers
Egalitarian
Personal
Momentum
Lives
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.
Isaiah Berlin
Denial
Will
Thought
Values
Men
Own
Control
Shaping
Makes
Ultimate
Conditioning
Getting
Human
Human Beings
Which
Against
Pattern
Forms
Them
Your
Therefore
Beings
Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.
Ivan Pavlov
Control
Nerves
Physiology
Glands
Over
Stimulate
Which
Gained
Last
Gastric
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