#governed

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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The world is governed by opinion. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#governed #opinion #world

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. ↗

— Henry Fielding

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In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. ↗

— Confucius

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An educated people can be easily governed. ↗

— Frederick The Great

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The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. ↗

— William Henry Harrison

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The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. ↗

— James Joyce

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The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind. ↗

— Lactantius

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This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

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