"The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain."
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"The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion."
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"I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State."
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"Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state."
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"Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it."
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"The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members."
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"Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself."
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"Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English."
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"I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj."
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"I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst."
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"The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form."
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"Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India."
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"Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong."
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"Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish."
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"The fish cannot leave the deep waters. The state's weaponry should not be displayed."
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"Of course, Soviet people would like to see the face of surrounding states changed, but that is the business of the surrounding states."
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"If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit."
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"The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumulation of capital for its own sake."
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"The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live."
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"It's a weird state to be in to go to the Bible and try to invoke science, right?"
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