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• The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.

  Milan Kundera

  Heart, Feelings, Mind

  "Light but sound" by John Banville, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.

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• Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
  Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
  In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd,
  Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;
  And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last
  The speed that spins the future and the past:
  And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,
  Awful eternity shall reign alone.

  Petrarch

  Time, Pain, Fate

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.440, Delphi Classics

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• Before the land rose out of the ocean, and became dry land, chaos reigned; and between high and low water mark, where she is partially disrobed and rising, a sort of chaos reigns still, which only anomalous creatures can inhabit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Land, Water

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.768, Delphi Classics

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• There are principles which govern our life-they are the principles of Life. If our life is lived according to these principles all is well, and harmony reigns in place of vexation and struggle.

  Henry Thomas Hamblin

  Struggle, Principles, Vexation

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• Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Pain, Powerful, Men

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• I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me; I dont know why! There were only 330 kids in my high school, though, so it wasnt a lot of kids to impress or reign over.

  Nicholas Braun

  Drama, School, Kids

  "Seventeen Chats with Nicholas Braun!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. August 10, 2009.

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• The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great a grace this truly is. Unfortunately, contemporary men and women simply do not value self-knowledge in the same way that all preceding generations have. For us technocratic knowledge reigns supreme. Even when we pursue self-knowledge, we all too often reduce it to a hedonistic search for personal peace and prosperity. How poor we are! Even the pagan philosophers were wiser than this generation. They knew that an unexamined life was not worth living.

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, Men, Self

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• Since you went the sun refuses to shine The sky joins me in weeping for your absence All our pleasure is gone with you ... Silence reigns everywhere ... Oh come back! Already the shepherds and their flocks call for you! Come back soon, or it will be winter in May.

  Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

  Broken Heart, Winter, Sky

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• The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

  Mitt Romney

  Government, Office, Cost

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• When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  James Hudson Taylor (2007). “Union and Communion Or, Thoughts on the Song of Solomon”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.

  Halldór Laxness

  Land, Sky, Joy

  "World Light" by Halldór Laxness, translated by Magnus Magnusson, published by Vintage Books, (Book Four: The Beauty of the Heavens), 2002.

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• There is a place where God, through the power of the Holy Ghost, reigns supreme in our lives.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Ghost, Holy, Our Lives

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Ever Increasing Faith”, p.9, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

  Daniel Webster

  Land, Darkness, Degradation

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• When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed another will take up his reign for seven thousand years. When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.

  Nostradamus

  Moon, Years, Sun

  Nostradamus (2013). “The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Prayer, War, Unity

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• In the inheritance, I seek to dramatically distinguish between genuine, authentic Christianity on the one hand, and counterfeit, alternative spirituality on the other hand. One of my primary purposes is to demonstrate that there are two kingdoms operating in the earth today, the genuine, superior kingdom of Jesus Christ, which reigns supreme, and the counterfeit, occult kingdom of the enemy, which, through extreme subtlety, has led millions of deluded souls astray.

  Brian Williams

  Jesus, Hands, Two

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• We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one of flesh, the other of the spirit, one of time, the other of eternity-where ever love arises such definitions vanish, and a sense of life awakens in which all such oppositions are at one.

  Joseph Campbell

  Two, May, Definitions

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.89, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• Humans have a saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which basically means that if you think it's beautiful, then it is beautiful. The elfin version of this saying was composed by the great poet B.O Selecta, who said "Even the plainest of the plain shall deign to reign", which critics have always thought was a bit rhymey. The dwarf version of this maxim is "If it don't stink, marry it", which is slightly less romantic, but the general gist is the same.

  Eoin Colfer

  Beautiful, Mean, Eye

  Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.865, Penguin UK

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• Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.

  Andy Grove

  Change, Chaos, Reins

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• Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.

  William James

  Life, Determination, Successful

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.58, 谷月社

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• The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

  Laozi

  Humility, Sea, Rivers

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• For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patience, Ill

  Tobias George Smollett, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith (1810). “The Poetical Works of Doctors Smollett, Johnson, and Goldsmith”

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• It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.

  Ovid

  Life, Safe, Despise

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• Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

  Kenneth Oppel

  World, Anything And Everything, Might

  Kenneth Oppel (2012). “Such Wicked Intent: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, Book Two”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• I let them think I did that" said Jace "My reign of terror continues

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Jace, Said

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