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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
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The world is governed by opinion.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would...
BELVA LOCKWOOD
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would a...
BELVA LOCKWOOD
Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and...
ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER
A man is known by the books he reads.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
JOSE SARAMAGO
The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them kn...
HENRY GILES
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
All countries must be governed by the modern people; they must be governed by the progressive people...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
Limitless opportunities abound, governed only by your focus on achieving them.
STEVEN REDHEAD
You are very harsh.'
'I have seen the world.
VOLTAIRE
After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the h...
MARK TWAIN
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting o...
NEIL GAIMAN
The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to see...
DANIEL WEBSTER
The choice is not, Reich argues, between a governed and an ungoverned market, but between a market g...
ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD
from all the graces of my homeland
I chose only your savage heart.
PABLO NERUDA
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what t...
E. M. FORSTER
All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes,
That I, being governed by the watery moon,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The human race is governed by its imagination.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
The boy is not governed by don't ,but is led by do.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL
To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is go...
FRIEDRICH H. JACOBI
God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscienc...
JOHN DRYDEN
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
HENRY FIELDING
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim
HENRY FIELDING
It is recognized by the World Organization of Natural Medical Practitioners - an adjunct of the Unit...
ANNE MENARD
I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United ...
SAM BROWNBACK
Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.
TARIQ RAMADAN
The world cannot be governed without juggling.
JOHN SELDEN
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem t...
DANIEL WEBSTER
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to ...
DANIEL WEBSTER
We will bring justice to the savage terrorists known as Boko Haram. They will be defeated.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pu...
MARIANNE MOORE
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
...all that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exact...
TONY PARSONS
The civilized savage is the worst of all savages.
C. J. WEBER
A man can hide all things, excepting twain-- That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
ANTIPHANES OF MACEDONIA
A man can hide all things, excepting twain - That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
ANTIPHANES
When we say Church of All Nations, it's a vision given to me, that the church will touch all the...
T. B. JOSHUA
The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN
Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, a...
JACOB M. APPEL
I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds...
DAVID MCCALLUM
Thou dost not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed
COUNT OXENSTIERNA
Common sense is not so common. [Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.] - Voltaire (Franco...
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For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the re...
CHRIS ANDERSON
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly ...
FRITZ KREISLER
Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equalit...
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE)
The United Nations is a reflection of the world, ... We can only get as far as member states are pre...
JEAN PING
The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum.
A.E. SAMAAN
In effect, reality is governed by what you make it.
STEVEN REDHEAD
Most of life is governed, even controlled, by specific habits.
STEVEN REDHEAD
The power of all animals are known ,the power of nature is known , the power of God is also known bu...
KOWSALAPATHY
Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.
ROLF HOCHHUTH
One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of ...
ARTHUR HENDERSON
In fact, Sonic hedgehog is the only protein known to be modified by cholesterol.
CHIN CHIANG
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
What is normal is governed by what you have become used to.
STEVEN REDHEAD
I travel to the ancient world by reading ancient books.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Life is a game governed by rules; the obedient win wherever they go.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL
One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER
Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose...
WALTER KAUFMANN
Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye.
GEORGE HERBERT
They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equa...
ROBERT TOOMBS
We live in a world governed by illusions. We function within illusions and are illusionists ourselve...
TARY C.
The growth is happening here. We are culturally confined by Japan, the US and Europe. Our business i...
FRED KINDLE
Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.
JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE
This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.
JACQUES DELORS
I am free and not governed by your approval to be who you want me to be. I am alas only the person I...
JASMINA SIDEROVSKI
We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.
MONA CAIRD
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limita...
CHUCK HAGEL
Here's to Great Britain, the sun that gives light to all nations of the world.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR
We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understan...
DONALD TRUMP
Our trade opens to all the world.
EZRA STILES
All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM
Truth or existence is governed by affirmation or denial through the propositioning of time.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON
To be known and protected by the Lord God from this world of wickedness and insecurity, love Him wit...
RAYMOND OBENG
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
This can only be achieved through an effective cooperation between nations. The world is a global vi...
JOSEPH INUNGU
According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
This less-is-more phenomenon holds true not only for individuals but for entire nations. A good exam...
ERIC WEINER
All our nations, if not motivated by love, are pointless
SUNDAY ADELAJA
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being gov...
G. K. CHESTERTON
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being gov...
G.K. CHESTERTON
Wherever in the world a country is governed by spiritually ill, politically empty, ethically rotten ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
SAMUEL ADAMS
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
SAMUEL ADAMS
I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told t...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who ar...
ALAN SIEGEL
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to complimen...
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