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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene. — Michel de Montaigne
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. — Edmund Burke
By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a… — Matthieu Ricard
Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how… — Matthieu Ricard
Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness.… — Dalai Lama
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we handle the drugs… — Ron Paul
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my… — William Shakespeare
Love may be blind, but this I'll state - it's eagle-eyed compared to hate. — Robert Breault
Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm… — Dalai Lama
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty. — Juvenal
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as… — Thomas Jefferson
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build… — Vaclav Havel
There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far… — Paul Broca
Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books. — Cardinal Richelieu
A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming. — Martin Luther
A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence… — Vladimir Lenin
The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master. — John F. Kennedy
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows… — John Updike

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