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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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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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Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message. ↗

— William Bernbach

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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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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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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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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