"In love, happiness is an abnormal state."
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"To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state."
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"Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind."
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"States are great engines moving slowly."
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"States, as great engines, move slowly."
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"He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely."
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"The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do."
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"Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable."
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"All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington."
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"I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive."
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"I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state."
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"Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State)."
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"Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being."
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"Barry Goldwater has definitely decided to be a candidate in '64. He will campaign in all thirteen states."
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"It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue."
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"States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies."
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"Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant."
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"Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified."
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"All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation."
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"The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church"
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