Diana Trilling
Author
"Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals."
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Ruling
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Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"The state is the executive committee of the ruling class."
Diogenes
Philosopher
"When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people.""
William James
Philosopher, Psychologist
"Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern."
Paulo Coelho
Writer
"Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled."
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"One hardly saves a world without ruling it."
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"Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke."
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"His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle."
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