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«Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude»
Author: Dale Carnegie
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attitude, conditions, depend, depend on, external, externals, governed, mental, mental attitude
«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»
Author: James Madison
(President)
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Government
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administered, administering, administers, difficulty, enable, framing, governed, oblige
«A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
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Law and lawyers
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governed, observed, strictly
«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.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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Bureaucracies, bureaucracy, democracy, democratic, effectively, governed, highly, modern, necessarily, obedient, perfectly, prepared, prepares, scientific, trained, tyrant
«In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.»
«Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.»
«A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty»
«Governments (derive) their just powers from the consent of the governed»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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consent, consented, consents, consent of the governed, derive, governed, governments, powers
«All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.»
«It costs ten times more to govern that it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.»
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