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Why will the Structure allow every other kind of sexual behavior but that one? Because submission and dominance are resources it needs for its very survival. They cannot be wasted in private sex. In any kind of sex. It needs our submission so that it can co-opt us into its own power game. There is no joy in it, only power. I tell you, if S and M could be established universally, at the family level, the State would wither away.

Wieder erschien eine Farbexplosion auf dem Bildschirm, der die Taetigkeiten von Annies Gehirn ueberwachte. Mae streckte die Hand aus und beruerhte Annies Stirn und staunte ueber die Distanz, die diese Haut, dieser Knochen zwischen ihnen herstellte. Was ging in ihrem Kopf vor? Es war wirklich zum Verzweifeln, dachte Mae, dieses Nichtwissen. Es war ein Affront, ein Entzug, ihr gegenueber und der Welt gegenueber. Sie wuerde bei Stenton und Bailey und bei der Vierzigerbande zur Sprache bringen, bei naechster Gelegenheit. Sie mussten dringend ueber Annie reden, ueber die Gedanken, die sie dachte. Wieso sollten sie die nicht wissen?

With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.

Wishing for control is like wishing for the rapture.

without the power to concentrate that is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence.

Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete.

With pocket money we prepare schoolchildren for the part of their lives during which some people to whom they are not related will use money to make them do, every weekday for about eight hours, things they do not really want to do.

With regard to character and reward, society has its priorities completely backward. We who enjoy experiencing and sharing physical pleasure are stigmatized and criminalized. Meanwhile those who enjoy controlling, punishing, and otherwise exercising power over non-consenting others are paid large salaries at the public's expense. Often they are given special uniforms and called heroes.

You always use that word "remember",' said Milena. 'You say, "remember, team". You never tell us to think.

You are more in control of your destiny than you have ever imagined.

You are in control only if you control yourself.

You are not your powers. If anything, the fact that you think you need them makes you a slave to them, and in doing so, weakens your true capabilities.

You are the creator of your own perceived reality. Don't be a creation of circumstances. Always take full control of your destiny.

You are your abilities and they are you. I can't put it to you more plainly. Do you know why I hate this cure? It's a statement that what we are is inherently wrong. It's a punishment for something that isn't our fault - all because they can't control their fear about what we can do, anymore than they can control their resentment that there are people out there stronger and more powerful than they are. They want to strip you of yourself - your ability to protect and enforce your right to make decisions about your life. Your own body. Mark my words: in the end, it won't be a choice. They'll decide this for you.

You can control people if you know their language. You can shut them up.

You can never totally control your ego, but you can understand it enough to make it control itself by convincing it that you are doing what it wants.

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

You can only start to discover your true positive self in life, if you rise to the challenge and take total control of your thoughts and beliefs, and never permit them to negatively control you again.

You can render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, but if you don't keep from Caesar that which is yours, Caesar will take some, and than take some more, and if you don't put a stop to it, though you won't lose everything - you can't lose everything; there's things he can't take, at least one or two - a time will soon come when you'll think you've lost everything, when you'll think all is Caesar's, and by then you'll be too weak to take what's yours back, too tired to remember what was yours to begin with, and you'll end up, perversely, scheming for his leavings and, even more perversely, grateful when you get them.

You can’t change the past, and you can’t control the future, but you can sure as hell contribute to the quality of your today.

You can't control it. Life is not something you wield.

You can’t control the weather, but that doesn’t stop some people from trying.

You can't make me do anything. I'm an adult. And I'm much stronger than you." "Upper body strength isn't everything; I have wiles." "Not really." "Yes, I do. I'm a woman. Women have wiles." "Some women. It's not like every woman is born wily." "If I don't have wiles, she said, "how come I can get you to do most anything I want?" "You don't get me to do anything. I just do things. Because I love you." "Oh." "Christ, Georgie, don't sound so disappointed.

You don't try to control the people you love. You want then to be free.

You either control your own mind or it controls you, for thought is the only thing that you completely command.

Without sufficient control, fate is pushing your switches on a continual basis.

Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened and subdued.

Women are human beings and have a right to control their own bodies. When that is denied, they are not free.

Words that you use determine and control what happens in life.

Worrying about things you cannot control is folly. Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes much simpler.

You are in control of your life, when you refuse to be provoke.

You are in control of your destiny. Start making plans, set goals and work as best towards them.

You are only in control of your choices.

You can be in Downward Dog, hating every second of it. Or you can be in this pose, peaceful and nonreactive, breathing calmly. Either way, you’re in this pose. You decide the quality of your experience. Be the thermostat, not the temperature.

You can keep your body, but if you give away your mind, you lose everything.

You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.

You cannot indeed say anything to anyone in this world. Whatever we ‘say’, it is ‘egoism’. The whole world is in order [in control].

You can overcome your circumstances or you can let your circumstances overcome you.

You can't change the past, only your perception of it; but you can control the future.

You can’t control the outside, but you can create an environment of values you choose to live by.

[Y]ou can't control everything. Anything, really. Like the food we've been making. We can follow the recipe exactly as your grandmother wrote it, do everything exactly--or almost exactly--as she had, and the dish can come out so-so instead of amazing. Or it can come out amazing when you were expecting very little.

You can't control your emotions, but you can control how you express them.

You can't make me do nothing but die!

You control your life by the remotes of your actions. Anytime you take actions the screen of your life changes till you get tuned to the best station or destination of God’s choice for you!

You don't try to control the people you love. You want them to be free.

You do the things you have to do in the order you have to do them.

You have no control over your growth or development. But you have a control on the direction of your growth and development! Go, grow towards impact directions!

You have little control over the world around you, but full control over the world within you.

You have to control the circumstances and things in your life. They should not control you

You have such an odd relationship to your environment," mused the man. "Such a paranoid relationship. You seem intent on existing in smaller and smaller spaces, filled with more and more gadgets, with the mistaken impression that this will give you more control over your lives. There's something a little impious about it." "Nothing wrong with gadgets," muttered Alif. "No, except that they're not magic," said the man, "and a lot of you seem to believe they should be.