"No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway."
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"Poverty is just a state of mind."
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"Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State"."
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"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."
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"Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state."
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"The state is the executive committee of the ruling class."
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"If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state."
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"Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy."
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"War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it."
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"The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life."
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"The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state."
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"In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present - the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity."
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"A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything."
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"Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state."
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"Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed."
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"Presence is a state of inner spaciousness"
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"When you feel gratitude, you are the closest to the natural state you were born to live in."
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"The small landholders are the most precious part of a state."
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"To change with change is the changeless state"
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"The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state."
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