Someone who seeks control, A Human Strategy by Matt Berry, aphorism 176

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Someone who seeks control usually does so in a violent storm, because he must have it.  Suppose he gains control.  He would blunder then if he thought that control were only possible in storms, since that would confuse the need for something with the thing itself.  Control is calm.  And one gains it or does not gain it ... storm or not.  But how many people, having found a degree of control in danger, pursue greater and greater dangers without first testing control?  ... and why?  ... because such a real victory would have neither excitement nor spectator.  




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