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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
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Pat Paulsen
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
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Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
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Margo Kaufman
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
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David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
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Norman Douglas
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), First on the Moon, 1970
If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.
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Elaine Gill
If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.
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John Alejandro King, My War On Terror!
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