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Quote:If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.[Mario Andretti]

Quote:I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.[Theodore Roosevelt]

Quote:Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.[Mike Tyson]

Quote:What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.[Thomas Edison]

Quote: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.[Alexander Hamilton]

Quote:The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.[Theodore Roosevelt]

Quote:The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.[Margo Kaufman]

Quote:What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.[Thomas Edison]

Quote:The women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.[Harry Blackmun]

Quote:I know of 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 wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.[Thomas Jefferson]

Quote:Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.[Benjamin Franklin]

Quote:Government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do it harm.[Nicolo Machiavelli]

Quote:We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. [Cato the Elder]

Quote:Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made. [Barbara Hall]

Quote:Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. [Don Marquis]



Definitions of: control

Definition: A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

Definition: That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.

Definition: Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.

Definition: The complete apparatus used to control a mechanism or machine in operation, as a flying machine in flight;

Definition: the mechanism controlling the rudders and ailerons.

Definition: Any of the physical factors determining the climate of any particular place, as latitude,distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.

Definition: in research, an object or subject used in an experimental procedure, which is treated identically to the primary subject of the experiment, except for the omission of the specific treatment or conditions whose effect is being investigated. If the control is a group of living organisms, as is common in medical research, it is called the control group.

Definition: the part of an experimental procedure in which the controls{6} are subjected to the experimental conditions.

Definition: the group of technical specialists exercising control by remote communications over a distant operation, such as a space flight; as, the American Mission Control for manned flights is located in Houston.

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