“If you are an approval addict, your behaviour is as easy to control as that of any other junkie. All a manipulator need do is a simple two-step process: Give you what you crave, and then threaten to take it away. Every drug dealer in the world plays this game.”
― Who's Pulling Your Strings? How to Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain Control of Your Life
― Who's Pulling Your Strings? How to Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain Control of Your Life
“I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything.
Maybe we’re from the same star.”
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Maybe we’re from the same star.”
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“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
― Propaganda
― Propaganda
“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Vision in White
― Vision in White
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