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7915 State quotes by 4102 unique authors

Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for… — Billy Tauzin
At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here,… — Kathleen Blanco
Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to… — Basil King
All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover… — John Harvey Kellogg
I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a free State upon… — Stephen A. Douglas
Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois. — Dick Durbin
To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion − not… — Paul Lockhart
We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight… — Rick Larsen
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. — Bruce Schneier
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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

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