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In the center of all rests the sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or better place that… — Nicolaus Copernicus
The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere… — Louis Kronenberger
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs. — Louis Kronenberger
Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be… — Benjamin Franklin
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is… — Abraham Lincoln
The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the… — Wilhelm Ostwald
Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures. — Alfred Armand Montapert
Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them. — Nicholas Culpeper
Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love. — Susan Cain
The living ocean drives planetary chemistry, governs climate and weather, and otherwise provides the cornerstone of the life-support system for all creatures on our planet,… — Sylvia Earle
Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove difficulties and dangers,… — Sima Qian
In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But it is not reason that governs love. — Moliere
Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other… — Marcus Aurelius
Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as… — John Ruskin
To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. — Susan Sontag
It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest… — David Hume
The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything. — John Constable
It is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and thinking. — Wilhelm Reich
It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst. — Jane Bowles
The head governs, the heart assists, the body acts. — Robert Genn
Imagination governs the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world. — John Selden

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