Quotes with governs

  • No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
  • Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.

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  • John Selden A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Brian Tracy How much we like ourselves governs our performance.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.
    The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Walter Lippmann 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
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Abraham Myerson Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.
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  • Alfred A. Montapert Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Plato No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • John Selden Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Aristotle So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Henry David Thoreau That government is best which governs least.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Thomas Jefferson That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Themistocles The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas 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.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • John D. Mcdonald The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
    John D. Mcdonald
    American writer of novels and short stories (1916 - 1986)
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  • Edmund Burke There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot There is no single rule that governs the use of geometry. I don't think that one exists.
    New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Susan Sontag Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • John Jay Chapman 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
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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