#governs

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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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

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Thomas Fuller

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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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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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