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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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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. ↗

— Richard Whately

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Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico? ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind. ↗

— William Greider

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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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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

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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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Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door. ↗

— Dennis Ross

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