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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

“You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

“a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” John Steinbeck, “Travels with Charley” - 1962

“Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.” Mark Twain, “The Mysterious Stranger” - 1916

“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.” Michel de Montaigne, “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne” - 1580

“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

“I wanted to give up the idea I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Invisible Monsters” - 1999

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily — weak people, in other words — they stand no chance against his powers!” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” - 2003

“Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.” Haruki Murakami, “Dance Dance Dance” - 1994

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