"Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do."
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"It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden."
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"All things are in a state of flux."
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"Form displays the relation [to beings] itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in its essence is celebrated and thus for the first time placed in the open."
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"Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved."
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"If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome."
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"It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most.... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time."
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"I've been to 57 states."
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"We have states. And we have cities. And we have counties. And we have the private sector. And - and so the country still works even when Washington's dysfunctional."
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"Enthusiasm cannot be a continuous state. It comes in waves."
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"We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology."
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"My state, Scott Walker, our governors, reformed Medicaid so it actually works, so that the doctors will take the program."
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"In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity."
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"I savour the idea of my new state: single and a millionaire."
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"My style go with me. It depend how I feel, what is my state of mind."
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"I love being in America. I love America. I absolutely adore working in America. I'm at my happiest when I'm in the States."
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"Treat the world like a failed state, then you can understand the players needed to fix it."
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"Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation."
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"In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly."
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"Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to bring forth the state of peace that we each inherently posses merely by his presence in a room-this is divine power."
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