State Quotes
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The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years. Getting rid of it was long overdue.
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Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.
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Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.
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Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you find you've got a runaway train. You have to race to catch up: the movie is telling you what it wants to become, and when that happens there's no greater feeling.
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Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state.
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A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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I was in a state of gnawing, sensuous agitation that excited continually both blood and nerves when I sketched out the music for 'Tannhauser' and brought it to completion.
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Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.
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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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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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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
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I was in a very deep state of shock after that. I had raised my horse since he was six months old and he was more like a child to me, so I took it very hard. They never caught who did it and the stable did a great job of covering facts up so it couldn't be proved that it was the direct result of the article, but the coincidence was striking.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.
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Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
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When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.
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Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows...it knows we can never reach it.
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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
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The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.
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The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
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A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
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To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in.
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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.
