State Quotes
7915 State quotes by 4102 unique authors
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Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and…
— George Szell
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I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his assassination by agents…
— Daniel Ellsberg
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Let us imagine, for example, that a mother is still in such a state of consciousness that she has forgotten the rest of the world…
— Michel Odent
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I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery
— Ahlam Mosteghanemi
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In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.
— Daniel Goleman
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It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there…
— Karl Hess
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Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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It (Hinduism) is like the boa constrictor of the Indian forests. When a petty enemy appears to worry it, it winds round its opponent, crushes…
— Unknown Author
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If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.
— Dalai Lama
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Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.
— Tom Robbins
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The idea of America endures. Our destiny remains our choice. And tonight, more than two centuries later, it is because of our people that our…
— Barack Obama
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Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm of time and…
— Eckhart Tolle
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You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really…
— Ram Dass
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It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these…
— Carl Hiaasen
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Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.
— Brian Johnson
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The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.
— Martin Jacques
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Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief,…
— Michael Shermer
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You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.
— Lemn Sissay
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The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.
— John Baldacci
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Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich…
— Larry Elder
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Planning is the essence of good management and when it comes to health care we must allow states to plan for future needs. We need…
— Lisa Murkowski
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We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And…
— Tim Pawlenty
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