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

— Oscar Wilde

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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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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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It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed. ↗

— John McDonald

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