Birth Control

(304 votes)   Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

Mahatma Gandhi
1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader

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(282 votes)   A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

Louisa May Alcott
1832-1888, American Author

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(280 votes)   He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(256 votes)   Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.

Robert Burns
1759-1796, Scottish Poet

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(204 votes)   He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(195 votes)   It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

James Augustine
British Writer

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(166 votes)   He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(160 votes)   It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(152 votes)   I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor.

Count Leo Tolstoy
1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher

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(137 votes)   The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.

Germaine Greer
1939-, Australian Feminist Writer

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(132 votes)   Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''

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(123 votes)   Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles
Course on Forgiveness Based on Christianity, Eastern Philosophy

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(119 votes)   O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(113 votes)   Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

James Russell Lowell
1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor

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(109 votes)   Govern thyself then you will be able to govern the world.

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