"Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature."
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"O wretched state! o bosom black as death!"
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"Greatest scandal waits on greatest state."
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"We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state."
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"The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried."
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"For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best."
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"What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is."
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"Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another."
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"Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it."
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"Congress requires states to draw single-member districts."
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"The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state."
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"Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us."
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"If you're aware when it's going on, you can deal with it and change it. If you're not aware of it, you'll be mystified at the states that come and go seemingly without reason."
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"There are no unresourceful people, only unresourceful states."
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"Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself"
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"If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position."
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"Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone."
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"A state is not a state if it belongs to one man."
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"In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation."
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"We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted."
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