#governs

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed. ↗

— John McDonald

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The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least. ↗

— Pat Robertson

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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#concerned #free #free world #governs #hand

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

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