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title: "12 State State Quotes by 12 authors"
description: "Browse 12 State State quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best State State sayings and thoughts."
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> [Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/whatever-state-i-am-in-i-see-it-as-a-state-of-mind-to-be-accepted-as/)

[Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/)

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> [Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/texas-is-not-a-state-it-s-a-state-of-mind/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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> [“We wake up. We move on. No state is our state forever. All is fleeting.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-fink/we-wake-up-we-move-on-no-state-is-our-state-forever-all-is-fleeting/)

[Joseph Fink](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-fink/)

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> [A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophocles/a-state-is-not-a-state-if-it-belongs-to-one-man/)

[Sophocles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophocles/)

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> [All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benito-mussolini/all-within-the-state-nothing-outside-the-state-nothing-against-the/)

[Benito Mussolini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benito-mussolini/)

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> [Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-nixon/screw-state-state-s-always-on-the-side-of-the-blacks-the-hell-with/)

[Richard M. Nixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-m-nixon/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a63/richard-m-nixon-727_blacks_screw-state-state-s-always-on-the-side-o_782566.jpg)

> [“War made the state, and the state made war”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-tilly/war-made-the-state-and-the-state-made-war/)

[Charles Tilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-tilly/)

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> [The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samora-machel/the-state-the-state-apparatus-is-not-an-abstraction/)

[Samora Machel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samora-machel/)

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> [That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-gill/that-state-is-a-state-of-slavery-in-which-a-man-does-what-he-likes-to/)

[Eric Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-gill/)

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> [The state of our state needs serious attention.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-daniels/the-state-of-our-state-needs-serious-attention/)

[Mitch Daniels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-daniels/)

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> [Perception of a state is not the state.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-john-harrison/perception-of-a-state-is-not-the-state/)

[M. John Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-john-harrison/)

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> [A star for every State, and a State for every star.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-winthrop/a-star-for-every-state-and-a-state-for-every-star/)

[Robert Charles Winthrop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-winthrop/)

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