#governs

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance. ↗

— Francois Hollande

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Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

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Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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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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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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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them. ↗

— Nicholas Culpeper

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The dead governs the living. ↗

— Auguste Comte

#governs #living

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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