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States Quotes by William James
- There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire,…
- When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off…
- The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its…
- This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one…
- One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their…
- Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in…
- Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I…
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- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur