"Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind."
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"Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature."
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"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."
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"There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state."
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"Being in a state of mystery seems to be my calling."
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"Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking."
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"The state of presence is the only state in which creative energy is available to you."
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"The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind."
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"To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness."
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"But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State."
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"I never really paid much attention to music that was going on in the UK. I was always looking towards the States for my inspiration."
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"For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker."
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"You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out."
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"Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul."
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"And now, of course this is another thing I didn't count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling."
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"The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion."
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"It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other."
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"The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory."
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"Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being."
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"Unless you feed your mind, those suffering states will take over."
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