Regulate Quotes

172 quotes by 151 authors

Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of… — Orhan Pamuk
The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of… — Barack Obama
Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You… — Frank Herbert
How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his… — Jonah Lehrer
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things. — Baruch Spinoza
He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot… — Baruch Spinoza
Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace. A life with… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The world's major religions in the end all want the same thing, even though they were born in different places and circumstances on this planet.… — Robert Muller
No one wants to stoke coal if he can regulate an oil valve instead. — Stavros Niarchos
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry… — Thomas Jefferson
The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving… — Thomas Woods
Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting… — Noreena Hertz
The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited… — Barbara Ann Radnofsky
Way back in 2000, the EPA was poised, and, in fact, had drafted a rule, to specially regulate pollution - water pollution and other types… — Charles Duhigg
Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to… — Jim Cooper
I am not convinced the Clean Air Act was ever intended to regulate or classify as a dangerous pollutant something as basic and ubiquitous in… — Jim Webb
Markets are, in the end, man-made devices for utilitarian purposes, not a force of nature that we should not try to resist. If they end… — Ha-Joon Chang
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of… — William James

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