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J. Stalin Political Leader
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"History shows that when any state intends to make war against another state, even not adjacent, it begins to seek for frontiers across which it can reach the frontiers of the state it wants to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds such frontiers."

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Marcel Proust Novelist
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"Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches."

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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian
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"All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms."

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Keith Murray Rapper, Musician
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"I often yearn to regress into a state that's slightly more atavistic than my decades of conditioning generally allow, but it's difficult to let go of those reigns."

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"We have to recognize that there is a range of interests, like there isn't a single corporate interest and a single state interest, so there's a range. In addition to that, there is the fact of professional integrity."

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Kerry King Musician
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"I just saw Jensen the other day. They are gonna be in the States at the same time when we are doing the tour, Se we'll see if we are going to see somewhere."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state."

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