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Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. ↗

— Golda Meir

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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. ↗

— William Penn

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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. ↗

— William Penn

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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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In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left. ↗

— John Podesta

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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people. ↗

— Mike Pence

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