"Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this."
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"I live in a state of grace, where I don't have to know."
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"Science can only state what is, not what should be."
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"The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state"
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"If you do get married, get a prenup. It's not about money at all. It's about having a document that states how you'll dissolve your marriage while you still have a shred of respect for each other."
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"He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt."
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"Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression."
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"Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?"
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"Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make."
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"A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep."
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"Myself will straight aboard, and to the state This heavy act with heavy heart relate."
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"Thus did I keep my person fresh and new, My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state, Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast."
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"It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State"
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"Solid state I don't like, even though I started it."
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"Barack Obama is president of a superpower and I'm a citizen of a small state."
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"The implication strongly is that Osama bin Laden is a Hitler, even though he has no state power at all. It's just grotesque if you seriously think about it."
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"The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States."
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"The extreme center is the political expression of the neoliberal state."
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"Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State."
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"The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite."
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