Govern Quotes
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
Moliere
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Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.
Lao Tzu
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To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
Albert Camus
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You may own a cat, but cannot govern one.
Kate Sanborn
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Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old climber or moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern his national comrades, but that, by the very greatness of the responsibility to be assumed, incompetents and weaklings are frightened of.
Adolf Hitler
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Maybe strong leaders are not quite as alluring as we think, and we should celebrate the fact that our leaders are just like us. Just because one candidate can't remember his whole speech and the other likes to put his feet up on the job doesn't mean they can't govern.
Jonathan Powell
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Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I'm concerned about how Hillary Clinton's going to govern.
Eddie Glaude
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There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
George Dennison Prentice
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I've heard, 'Temer is very fragile, poor little thing; he doesn't know how to govern.' Gibberish!
Michel Temer
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Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.
Ivan Pavlov
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If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.
Gerrard Winstanley
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I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying to swim, 'Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim.' When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. And I think people have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern themselves.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
Susan B. Anthony
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One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.
Ben Chifley
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Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.
Pythagoras
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In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are not likely to do it very well.
Alan Wolfe
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The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!
Ann Radcliffe
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The only way Democrats can govern in this country is by making common cause with moderates and independents.
Evan Bayh
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Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.
Lao Tzu
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The concept of war is not the construct that will govern - psychologically, politically, and legally - our continuing response to Al Qaeda.
Benjamin Wittes
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Donald Trump will become president even after losing the popular vote in our November elections by a wide margin. To govern effectively, he must appeal to a broader base than what he campaigned on and avoid the divisive rhetoric that alienated so many Americans.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern an empire, and said to his companion, This man surely will be emperor; he is so early.
Nicolas Bouvier