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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
In a nation based on the 'consent of the governed,' judges are supposed to apply the laws the people have assented to.
The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
My Catholic faith is the foundation of my worldview, and my judicial duty is governed, from beginning to end, by the law.
Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.
George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.
All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.
If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
My life used to be governed by that. I would know what day it was because I would be at 'Monday Night Raw' or 'SmackDown' on Tuesday.
We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.
A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
The Liberal party has always worked with multiple parties in the House to make sure we're being governed in the best interest of Canadians.
Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?
We live in this miraculous technological environment, and yet our human behaviour is still governed by basic impulses from prehistoric times.
To me, it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.
I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
I live in Realville, and my problem is that I'm governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don't hold up.
The main factors in terms of how tiring a season can be are governed by the number of races and the length of time between the first and the last.
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution.
The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.
The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to regain this consent.
My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
The economy is governed through cartel agreements and monopoly. The attorney general is the one who's controlling funds. There is no free business in Georgia.
Keep your mind open about what you want to do and be true to yourself. So many people are governed by what's 'in' or copy something that someone else has done.
When I governed, the overwhelming mindset of the media was to dismiss out of hand any suggestion that anything happening to me was in any way related to gender.
While Napoleon believed his fortunes to be governed by destiny, his real genius lay in self-control and martial daring coupled with an indomitable will to power.
In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
It is not a happy lot being a princess in any country, but especially Japan in which every tiny aspect of one's life is governed by the most rigid rules of protocol.
That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.