"Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability."
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"Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done."
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"The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming."
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"We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security."
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"In California, we are a sixty percent Hispanic state, we elected an Austrian governor. Even old Nazis are going "That's weird.""
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"War is a matter of vital importance to the state."
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"Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease."
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"What we do and what we experience has a direct correlation with our habitual states of consciousness and mental states. The more spiritually aware we are, the more harmonious and fulfilling are our lives."
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"All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith."
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"In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims."
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"Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force."
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"Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him."
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"A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person"
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"How you live your life can affect your mental state."
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"You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature."
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"The state is not abolished, it withers away."
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"There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable."
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"Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power."
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"I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!"
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"Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state."
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