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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."
"A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created."
"The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful."
"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."
"It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one."
"All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms."
"Taxes are the sinews of the state."
"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."
"Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own."
"This is unparalyzed in the state's history."
"The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt."
"In much of the world the U.S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state."
"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."
"States are not moral agents."
"The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind."
"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."
"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."
"Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state."
"I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others."