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“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“The only immediate utility of all sciences, is to teach us, how to control and regulate future events by their causes.” David Hume, “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” - 1748

“Who controls the past . . . controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life?” William Shakespeare, “King John” - 1623

“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“Neither of these speculations is unreasonable, and they are mentioned to show how little men control their own destiny.” Ulysses S. Grant, “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant” - 1885

“The religion we have is our all-important instrument towards that end. With it we have brought the Four Kingdoms under our control, even at the moment when they would have crushed us. It is the most potent device known with which to control men...” Isaac Asimov, “Foundation” - 1951

“Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“Swann had learned by experience that the good intentions of a third party are powerless to control a woman who is annoyed to find herself pursued even into a ball-room by a man whom she does not love. Too often, the kind friend comes down again...” Marcel Proust, “Swann's Way” - 1913

“I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.” Frank Zappa, “The Real Frank Zappa Book” - 1989

“Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.” Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom” - 1913

“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but, contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.” Baruch Spinoza, “Ethics” - 1677

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