#governed

The human race is governed by its imagination. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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Voters will decide how they want to be governed. ↗

— Evangelos Venizelos

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Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

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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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It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq. ↗

— John Yoo

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That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them. ↗

— John Yoo

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

— David Hume

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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