"That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change."
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"When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person."
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"To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words."
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"The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism."
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"If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism."
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"To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church."
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"Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy."
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"The welfare system in the United States is vile."
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"The States acceded to the Union."
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"The laws of a state change with the changing times."
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"Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself."
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"Interest is the barometer of the state."
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"We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever."
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"A theory of the universe that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for, it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable."
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"Heads of state are actually prisoners of special interest groups."
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"Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state."
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"Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it."
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"I was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer."
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"Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza."
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"Today Secretary of State John Kerry visited the small African nation of Djibouti. Or to use the official diplomatic term, he made a Djibouti call."
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