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Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions. — Duane Elgin
Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent… — Matt Blunt
Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface. — Confucius
Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the preference for liquidity,… — John Maynard Keynes
But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is any other cause… — John Brown Baldwin
The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time,… — George B. McClellan
That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within… — Abraham Lincoln
No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore… — Abraham Lincoln
Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en… — William Tecumseh Sherman
Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances. — Unknown Author
The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in… — Edgar Mitchell
In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion. — Haruki Murakami
NVC gives us tools and understanding to create a more peaceful state of mind. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. — Franz Kafka
To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd of… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their… — Emma Goldman
The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary. — Benjamin Tucker
If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State. — Benjamin Tucker
Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as… — Joseph Sobran

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