verne Quotes and Quotations
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verne Quotes and Quotations
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. Henri Frederic Amiel | top
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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. Henri Frederic Amiel | top
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Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests. Chester Irving Barnard | top
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We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. Tom Brown, Jr. | top
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The world is governed by opinion. William Ellery Channing | top
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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Adrian Cronauer | top
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. Benjamin Disraeli | top
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The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind. William Greider | top
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. Alexander Hamilton | top
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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. Richard Hooker | top
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. Aldous Huxley | top
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. Muhammed Iqbal | top
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The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began. Phillip E. Johnson | top
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Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God. James Prescott Joule | top
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I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did. Donna Mills | top
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And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people. Mike Pence | top
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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. William Penn | top
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. Plato | top
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In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left. John Podesta | top
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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. Bertrand Russell | top
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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. Tony Snow | top
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As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed. Josiah Strong | top
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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. Raoul Vaneigem | top
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. Richard Whately | top
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. Ludwig Wittgenstein | top