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Gelett Burgess

The use of force alone is but tempo…

6 Feb , 2019  

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. Great short quote and quotation by: Gelett Burgess , US humorist & illustrator (1866 – 1951)

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Webster

The world is governed more by appea…

25 Jan , 2017  

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. Great short quote and quotation by: Webster ,

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Daniel Webster

The world is governed more by appea…

25 Jan , 2017  

The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. Great short quote and quotation by: Daniel Webster , US diplomat, lawyer, orator, & politician (1782 – 1852)

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The world is governed more by appea…

25 Jan , 2017  

The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. Great short quote and quotation by: Daniel Webster , US diplomat, lawyer, orator, & politician (1782 – 1852)

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Those who are too smart to engage i…

17 Apr , 2013  

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. Great short quote and quotation by: Plato , Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

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Those who are too smart to engage i…

17 Apr , 2013  

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. Great short quote and quotation by: Plato , Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

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Bertrand Russell, Autobiography

Three passions, simple but overwhel…

17 Jan , 2012  

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. Great short quote and quotation by: Bertrand Russell, Autobiography , British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

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We can allow satellites, planets, s…

15 Feb , 2011  

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. Great short quote and quotation by: Charles Darwin , English biologist (1809 – 1882)

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When men exercise their reason cool…

15 Feb , 2011  

When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same. Great short quote and quotation by: Alexander Hamilton , US (Scottish-born) […]

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Voltaire

You despise books; you whose lives …

27 Apr , 2010  

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. Great short quote and quotation by: Voltaire , French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)

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Mark Twain

[Mankind] is governed by minorities…

11 Jan , 2010  

[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it. Great short quote and quotation by: Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX , […]

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