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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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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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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people. ↗

— Mike Pence

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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests. ↗

— Chester Irving Barnard

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Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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