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"The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all." »G. K. Chesterton
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"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it." »Golda Meir
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"If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants." »William Penn
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"...the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it." »Daniel Webster
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"Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?" »Count Oxenstierna
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"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it." »Webster
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"Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man." »Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin
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"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges" »Kahlil Gibran
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"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." »Plato
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"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." »Plato
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"Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe." »Christine Lane
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"Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat." »Sri da Avabhas
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"An nescis mi fili, quantilla prudentia regitur orbis?
Dost thou not know, my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed?" »Count Oxenstierna, letter to his son, 1648
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"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered." »Gelett Burgess
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"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered." »Gelett Burgess
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"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act." »Charles Darwin
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"'Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." »Bertrand Russell
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"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." »Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
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"When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same." »Alexander Hamilton
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"You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books." »Voltaire
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"You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books." »Voltaire
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"[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it." »Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX
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"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own." »W. R. Inge
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"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." »Alexander Hamilton
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"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature." »Sigmund Freud
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"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want." »Clive Barnes
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"Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want." »Clive Barnes
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