#governed

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

— Dale Carnegie

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Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

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Men still have to be governed by deception. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. ↗

— James Madison

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Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#disaster #due #governed #happiness #life

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. ↗

— Golda Meir

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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity. ↗

— Marianne Moore

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. ↗

— Plato

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In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left. ↗

— John Podesta

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