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Although knowledge of how things work is sufficient to allow manipulation of nature, what humans really want to know is why things work. Children don't ask how the sky is blue. They ask why the sky is blue.

Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we're less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media.

Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.

A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.

Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions.

Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.

Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.

Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.

How can I be expected to love someone who tries such crude manipulations as bringing me breakfast in bed?

Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.

God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure!

If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter ofemotion as of genital manipulation.... As we each examine our own sense of identity we realize how much more complex is the question of homosexuality than a mere Kinsey-like computation of orgasms.

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again -- and this is a very subjective position -- that most cinema seems to trivialise the emotions, sentimentalising or romanticising them.

In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.

I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print.

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

Neither logic nor scientific evidence supports such a belief. Although spinal manipulation can relieve certain types of back pain, neck pain, and other musculoskeletal symptoms, there is no scientific evidence that it can restore or maintain health. As a result of expressing my opinion on this subject, I have been called a chiropractic heretic.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

Of course there's conscious manipulation! Everything about a movie is manipulation ... If you like it, it's an interpretation. If you don't like it, it's a lie - but everything about these movies is a distortion.

Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.

Nowadays, teenagers are so fast and quick to see through any form of manipulation. Sitting down and just thinking of something is like watching really bad pornography.

Science of yoga and ayurveda is subtler than the science of medicine, because science of medicine is often victim of statistical manipulation.

Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.

Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment.

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

Sometimes I'm surprised when someone who has achieved success is incredibly Machiavellian in their manipulations. So, while I want to believe it's integrity, that might just show how naïve I am. I sometimes worry that I might not be shrewd enough to maneuver myself through the Hollywood system.

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even the most blatant lies. ... Subjective reason conforms to anything.

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.

The really big problem with China is that there are the unfair trade practices, like currency manipulation, illegal export subsidies and the theft of intellectual property, but then there's also things that the WTO doesn't cover that it should, which is the use of sweat shops and pollution havens.

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.

Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.