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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. ↗

— Stendhal

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Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ↗

— Roberto Assagioli

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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. ↗

— Richard Whately

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Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. ↗

— Gunther Grass

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The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. ↗

— David Hume

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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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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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