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Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.
Johannes P. Muller

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson

Syllables govern the world.
George Bernard Shaw

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun.
Richard Cardinal Cushing

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
Claudio Hummes

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton

The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country are made by the Jews and their lackeys.
Julius Streicher

The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern.
Michael Beschloss

The highest form of development is to govern one's self.
Zerelda G. Wallace

The king reigns but does not govern.
Louis Adolphe Thiers

The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.
Howard Fineman

The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern.
Charles Ruff

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
William Henry Harrison

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.
Alain Juppe

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.
Jose Saramago

The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country.
Richard Lugar

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
George Dennison Prentice

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.
Franz Schubert

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
Mohandas Gandhi

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