#verne

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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I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye. ↗

— David McCallum

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I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did. ↗

— Donna Mills

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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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Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie. ↗

— Mike Myers

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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. ↗

— William Penn

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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. ↗

— William Penn

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. ↗

— Plato

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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. ↗

— Plato

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