Accepting that I can't completely control the future does not mean that I stop taking responsibility for my actions, decisions or thoughts.

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"I try not to get stressed about things I can't control, " Barkley said when asked about his drop in the draft.

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I've learned over the years not to think a lot about things we can't control.

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It's affected by international circumstances, over which we only have limited control - we have influence but not control - but we can also do things in the way that I've described to boost confidence at home.

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"That's something I can't control what's going to happen, whether I'm here or not at the end of the day, " Rolston said Wednesday.

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As an animal rights activist I can chime in as follows: were it not for the technologies of immuno-contraception (birth control for other species) there would be an even more vast realm of needless suffering.

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