State Quotes
7915 quotes by 4102 authors
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Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.
— Walter J. Ong
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The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.
— Yukio Mishima
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Where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation
— Leon Trotsky
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With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think…
— Jennifer Granholm
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We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who…
— Jennifer Granholm
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For people who dont know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming.…
— John Barrasso
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Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. Sometimes we are…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democratic president has to…
— Andrew Sullivan
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While the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in a conflict in Syria – half a world away from the United…
— Robert D. Kaplan
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In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation…
— Humphry Davy
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Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul.
— Gary Zukav
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N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and peaceful…
— Eric Hobsbawm
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You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.
— Stirling Moss
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Where the habits are simple, and the mind truly elevated, then is society in the best state...
— Mary Martha Sherwood
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If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of…
— Catherine Ponder
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For democrats, it's as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable: When religion defines…
— Ellen Willis
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The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.
— Hendrik Verwoerd
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The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must…
— Oliver Lodge
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It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike…
— William Robertson Smith
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Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a…
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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