State Quotes
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While researching for his talk, Conners had noticed that North Carolina, his adopted home state, owned the dubious distinction of having the nation's highest rate of kids diagnosed with ADHD.
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Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.
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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
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To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in.
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Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only say: May our state be constituted in such a manner as to be blessed with the goods of which fortune disposes: whereas virtue and goodness in the state are not a matter of chance but the result of knowledge and purpose. A city can be virtuous only when the citizens who have a share in the government are virtuous, and in our state all the citizens share in the government.
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There is no democrats or republicans, right or left, red state or blue state. We are all one. And we are all unified against Mexicans.
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Until you have a child, it's very tempting to look at the state of the world and say, "To hell with it, in 50 years I won't be around anyway." But if you have a child you don't say that, because even if you're not around in 50 years, your children presumably will be, and maybe even their children. You think of yourself as responsible to future generations in a whole different way.
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The route of the train of Israeli justice must take into account the Jewishness of the state.
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Why, since people must outnumber the minority that comprises the State and its oppressive forces, have they submitted so meekly to it?
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If state rights and laissez faire meant an end to force bills, removal of Federal troops from Southern state capitals, and abandonment of intervention in local politics and race discriminations, the South was for them strong. On the other hand the South had no patience with state rights and laissez faire if they implied abandonment of Federal subsidies, loans of credit, and internal improvements. Of these the South believed she had not had anything like her just share and she meant to have a lot more.
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So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.
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As we consider expanding options in this state, we must re-double our efforts to make sure that public schools in Tennessee are well-resourced and that Tennessee teachers and principals are the best and most celebrated in the business.
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I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.
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A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.
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I want the state to take away people's guns. But I don't want the state to use methods against gun owners that I deplore when used against naughty children, sexual minorities, drug users, and unsightly drinkers. Since such reprehensible police practices are probably needed to make anti-gun laws effective, my proposal to ban all guns should probably be marked a failure before it is even tried.
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The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it.
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You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Right now, no sane and unbiased person would be so stupid as to doubt that the North Korean state is very repressive.
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But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.
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Communists also want a society without a State but realize that such can only come about when society is without classes.
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Churches can easily bring together, in a short period of time, a substantial number of people, and politicians have to assume that these folks have the potential to vote. Although there's supposed to be a separation of church and state, they want to go to these churches to say hello to the people, and they assume their hello might turn into votes.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.
