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The world is governed by opinion.
世界是由意见统治的。
The human race is governed by its imagination.
人类受想象力的支配。
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
没有什么比多数人容易被少数人控制更令人惊讶的了。
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
令人惊讶的是，人类的智慧是如此之少，而这些智慧却属于人类自己。
Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
我们与印第安人的关系主要是由条约和贸易，或战争和征服所支配的。
The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.
毕竟，广告受恐惧支配的原因是，大多数广告公司仅依靠少数客户就能带来大部分收入。
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
说社会应该由最聪明、最优秀的人的意见来统治，虽然这是真的，但毫无用处。谁的意见决定谁是最聪明和最好的?