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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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Be systematically heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty, so that, when the hour of need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved or untrained to stand the test.: Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.: Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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Be eager to fulfill the smallest duty and flee from transgression for one duty includes another and one transgression induces another transgression.: The Talmud, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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While we don't have much say over the desires that we have, we certainly can decide which we prefer-and then search for ways to act on that basis.: Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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Worrying about gray hair when your weight's soaring out of control is like mowing your lawn while your house is on fire.: Edward Ugel, I'm With Fatty: Losing Fifty Pounds in Fifty Miserable Weeks, 2010
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Control's a funny thing. It comes and goes. Some days I had it, some days I didn't. It felt like every time I did something healthy, I had this in satiable need to counterbalance it by doing something unhealthy.: Edward Ugel, I'm With Fatty: Losing Fifty Pounds in Fifty Miserable Weeks, 2010
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.: James Madison (1751 - 1836), The Federalist Papers, 1788
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Attention to our duties provides far greater rewards than beauty and wit. Self-control is what differentiates us from the beasts. Without it, we are merely animals.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Secret Heart of Charlotte Lucas, 2014
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