States Quotes
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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Vladimir Nabokov
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When I do all-hands calls - and I do a lot of all-hands calls - and I look out across 50 people, or 5,000 people, I see United States sailors. I do not see male sailors, or female sailors, and I do not think anybody else does, either.
Ray Mabus
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This is a fundamental question, Mr. Mayor [ Rudy Giuliani ]. Is the president of the United States legitimate or not? Do you believe it? If you believe it, why doesn't your candidate state it.
Chris Matthews
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Happiness is a state a mind, not a dress size.
Kathryn Budig
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What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.
Molly Ivins
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I was very productive as a senator for my state.
Carol Moseley Braun
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All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any others. Many of the Carthaginian institutions are excellent. The superiority of their constitution is proved by the fact that the common people remains loyal to the constitution; the Carthaginians have never had any rebellion worth speaking of, and have never been under the rule of a tyrant.
Aristotle
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Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?
William H. Wharton
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Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.
Mike Myers
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We have never meddled in the domestic affairs of any state and we never will.
Vladimir Putin
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Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene. And music excites me because it puts me in a mind state, whatever that may be.
Michael B. Jordan
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There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
William H. Seward
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We need marriage equality in every state in this nation. Otherwise, no state really has marriage equality, and we will not rest until it is a reality.
Andrew Cuomo
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Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.
Andrew Bernstein
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People ask me, "What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?" Well, that's not my job as a US senator to bring industry to the state. That's the lieutenant governor's job, that's your state senators' and assemblymen's job. That's your secretary of state's job, to make a climate in the state that says, 'Y'all come.'
Sharron Angle
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The process clearly is a process that leads in the direction of two states, ... We will lead in the direction of two states.
Tzipi Livni
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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
Garry Winogrand
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Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.
Willy Brandt
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The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It would be right to state that, with the successful flight of the XR-4 in the summer of 1942, the helicopter became a reality in the United States.
Igor Sikorsky
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All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
Thomas Sowell
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The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.
William Francis Buckley
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One of the reasons that Im running for president is I want to make sure that every young man and woman who puts on the uniform of the United States respects highly the president of the United States.
Rick Perry