#governed

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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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The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.


Angela Carter


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Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.


Gunther Grass


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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.


William Ralph Inge


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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.


Muhammad Iqbal


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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.


Walter Bagehot


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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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Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.


John Drinkwater


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I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.


David McCallum


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If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.


Henri Poincare


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