Quotes with governing

  • 'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.

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  • Aristotle All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Carolyn See 'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Bill Richardson As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Ben Stein Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe - gravity, thermodynamics, motion, fluid motion - how any of those originated. It's...it's got some gigantic missing pieces.
    Ben Stein on CNN: Impolite Conversation. Ben Stein on CNN: Impolite Conversation
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Bob McDonnell Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Jean Baudrillard Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Theodor Reik He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.
    Theodor Reik
    Austrian-American psychoanalyst (1888 - 1969)
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  • Walter Lippmann In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Breyten Breytenbach In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Betty Williams Men, once enemies, are now jointly governing in Northern Ireland. And although there have been several hitches, by and large it's working well.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Barbara Jordan Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Bill Frist Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Gloria Steinem The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • B. W. Powe The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.
    Towards A Canada of Light Letter To Those In power, p. 83
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Beth Simone Noveck The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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  • Thomas Paine The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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