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Early next year the governing council will reassess the monetary stimulus achieved and the outlook for price developments, we will also evaluate oil price developments.

– Mario Draghi

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9 years ago

Early next year the Governing Council will reassess the monetary stimulus achieved, the expansion of the balance sheet and the outlook for price developments, should it become necessary to further address risks of too prolonged a period of low inflation ... this would imply altering early next year the size, pace and composition of our measures.

– Mario Draghi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

– Walter Raleigh

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9 years ago

It is important, of course, that controversies be settled right, but there are many civil questions which arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled. Of course a settlement of a controversy on a fundamentally wrong principle of law is greatly to be deplored, but there must of necessity be many rules governing the relations between members of the same society that are more important in that their establishment creates a known rule of action than that they proceed on one principle or another. Delay works always for the man with the longest purse.

– William Howard Taft

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9 years ago

A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government. Somewhere in between and In gradations is the group that has the sense that gov't exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly.

– Lionel Trilling

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10 years ago

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

– Gloria Steinem

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10 years ago

No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.

– Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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10 years ago

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.

– Jean Baudrillard

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10 years ago

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

– Vladimir Lenin

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10 years ago

One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them: It is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job. Another problem with governing people is people.

– Douglas Adams

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13 years ago

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

– Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address

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13 years ago

We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.

– Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971)

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13 years ago

However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.

– Eric Hoffer

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13 years ago

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

– Tao Le Ching

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14 years ago

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

– Bhagavad Gita

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14 years ago

More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party -- the acid, final test.

– Adlai Ewing Stevenson

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14 years ago

Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

– Woodrow Wilson

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14 years ago

Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind.

– S. E. Lindsay

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14 years ago

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