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Tag Name "Govern" (379)

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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Laozi
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Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.
Thomas Fuller
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Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.
Pythagoras
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Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.
Laozi
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O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.
John Knox
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All power corrupts but some must govern.
John le Carre
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He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.
Laozi
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Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.
John Lubbock
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Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.
Lee Kuan Yew
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Those that govern most make least noise.
John Selden
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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
Lucretius
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To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
John Vianney
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There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Temples have their images and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men's minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
Jonathan Edwards
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A community is like the ones who govern it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Just as in nature systems of order govern the growth and structure of animate and inanimate matter, so human activity itself has, since the earliest times, been distinguished by the quest for order.
Josef Muller-Brockmann
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
Marquis de Sade
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What we need today are not more laws to govern believers. What we need is a greater revelation and appreciation of Jesus and everything that He has done for us!
Joseph Prince
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Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.
Mary Baker Eddy
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The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.
Josh Linkner
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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round the world otherwise you may tremble at the appearance of every cloud.
Joshua Slocum
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We cannot govern in a vacuum. The way that - again, part of my leadership style is that we've got to really have voices, diverse voices, at the table, on any given issue, and really figure out what is the best path.
Melissa Mark-Viverito
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The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.
Karl Kautsky
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