Control has 2 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
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| 1. | If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. 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. | |
| 2. | Wrath doesn't control me, I control wrath instead. | |
| 3. | The logic and necessity of the new generation — and what they are so furiously opposed to — must be seen against a background of what has gone wrong in America. It must be understood in light of the betrayal and loss of the American dream, the rise of the Corporate State of the 1960's, and the way in which that State dominates, exploits, and ultimately destroys both nature and man. Its rationality must be measured against the insanity of existing "reason" — reason that makes impoverishment, dehumanization, and even war appear to be logical and necessary. Its logic must be read from the fact that Americans have lost control of the machinery of their society, and only new values and a new culture can restore control. Its emotions and spirit can be comprehended only by seeing contemporary America through the eyes of the new generation. | |
| 4. | Learn to control it or it will control you. | |
| 5. | Thinking you're not susceptible to mind control actually makes you susceptible to mind control. | |
| 6. | If you control a nation's children, you control that nation's future. | |
| 7. | You must control yourself. | |
| 8. | During prohibition days, racketeers used to rub each other out to get control of the rum-running racket. | |
| 9. | I'm very impressed with your quality control. | |
| 10. | I would like to stress that it is more convenient to control tariffs as a bloc rather than country by country. |