State Quotes
7915 quotes by 4312 authors
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I really worry about the state of the planet and I wish everyone would make a concerned effort not to trash it.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility…
— Louis Bernacchi
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A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a…
— Michael Faraday
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The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences.…
— Noam Chomsky
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I've got enough money in my life to retire now and do nothing. But I've got a duty and obligation to see if we can…
— Clive Palmer
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Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and cannot exist without…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.
— Thomas Gray
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There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second…
— John Quincy Adams
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In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created,…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Being rich/wealthy is being in touch with the fullness of life. When you are open to the present moment, what comes in, is a gratitude…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.
— Joseph Story
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The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on…
— Albert Einstein
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I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay…
— Thomas Paine
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular, to…
— James Madison
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It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority of the people…
— James Madison
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This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented;…
— Joseph Story
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