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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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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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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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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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Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door. ↗

— Dennis Ross

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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

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

— Golda Meir

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