Trying to control the emotional self willfully by manipulative attempts is like trying to choose a number on a thrown die or to push back the water of the Kamo River upstream.
"If that is correct - and it applied to manipulative skill - then that suggests there should be alien technologies," he said.
You are not the pawn or puppet of a manipulative Creator, or the by-product of an accidentally created world.
They are not dependent - they are manipulative.
She is self-centered, deceitful, manipulative, promiscuous and enjoys the chaos and drama caused by her bad choices.
But his people, and especially the young, suffer the same ill-defined anguish at having long been humiliated by an unresponsive, unaccountable and cynically manipulative regime.
Too much television — particularly at ages critical for language development and manipulative play — can impinge negatively on young minds in several different ways including the following
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