States Quotes
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Freedom and slavery are mental states.
Mahatma Gandhi -
So long as states enact fiduciary laws that don't impact a pension plan like a 401(k), they have every right to act.
James Watkins
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The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.
Willa Cather -
Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.
Philip James Bailey -
[Maxim] Litvinov signed his letter not in private capacity but as representative of the state, just as did President [Franklin] Roosevelt. Their agreement represents an agrement between two states. Signing this agreement both Litvinov and President Roosevelt as the representatives of two states have in mind the activities of the agents of those states who should not and will not interfere in each other's internal affairs.
Joseph Stalin -
By and large, the world wants to move away from the nuclear era. The question is how fast and how far. In a world of sovereign nation-states, I can't rationalize any number above zero. If it's more than zero, you have to acknowledge every nation has the right to have them.
George Lee Butler -
We were really professional by the time we got to the States; we had learned the whole game. When we arrived here we knew how to handle the press; the British press were the toughest in the world and we could handle anything. We were all right.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Sexism, just as nationalism, is an ideology through which power is generated and nation-states are built. Sexism is not a function of biological differences.
Abdullah Ocalan -
The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.
Kate Richards O'Hare -
I think we each have a personal sweet spot as well. It's the state of mind in which we experience the most joy and satisfaction in being ourselves. And from that place of pleasure and joy in being ourselves, energy arises to flow out into our day bringing with it the depth and resonance of our own beingness, bringing with it blessing.
David Spangler -
George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God.
William G. Boykin -
In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?
Paul Gauguin -
The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of the federal states will not be done away.... The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such law is in itself a limited one.
Adolf Hitler
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One thing which frustrates me about state pensions is the disparity between EU countries.
Geoff Capes -
Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen -
What shall we call this undetermin'd state, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans, That whence we came, and that to which we tend?
George Lillo -
Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
Vladimir Lenin -
The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship.
David K. Bernard
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By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a narrow river, as there is across town, but of one of the noblest rivers in the United States.
Paul Goldberger -
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 -
I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
Og Mandino -
Southern states simply do not believe in funding education to the extent that northern states do.
Chuck Thompson