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Control

You cant force anyone to love you or lend you money. – Yiddish Proverb

The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the – Scott Adams

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well. – Louisa May Alcott

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it – James Allen

If everything seems under control, youre just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem. – Dr. Robert Anthony

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. – Aristotle

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldnt be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesnt know that so it goes on flying anyway. – Mary Kay Ash

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it. – Marcus Aurelius

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. – Sir Alfred Jules Ayer

Never let the other fellow set the agenda. – James Baker

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker. – Mikhail Bakunin

He may be a very nice man. But I havent got the time to figure that out. All I know is, hes got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. Thats the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die. – James Baldwin

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure… they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. – John Bentham

The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp. – John Berry

Dont take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to. – Josh Billings

I am not a glutton — I am an explorer of food. – Erma Bombeck

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see. – Napoleon Bonaparte

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. – Napoleon Bonaparte

I have only one counsel for you — be master. – Napoleon Bonaparte