"The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift."
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"I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment."
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"Education can no longer be the sole property of the state."
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"Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation."
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"I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word."
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"If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things."
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"Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect."
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"Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state?"
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"I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri."
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"Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana."
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"Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate."
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"Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that happens to us - it is something we do."
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"Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many."
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"An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming."
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"The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will."
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"For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977"
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"The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life."
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"Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state."
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"The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem."
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"Work up imagination to the state of vision."
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