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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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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance. ↗

— Francois Hollande

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Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

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Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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