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There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them. ↗

— Lactantius

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In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern. ↗

— Plato

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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

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The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them. ↗

— Nicholas Culpeper

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The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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The dead governs the living. ↗

— Auguste Comte

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