"Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united."
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"Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions."
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"You do what you have to do to compete, and that takes you to places where you are in a relentless state to find an edge and compete. That mentality keeps you on and on point. The how is following the drive, being resourceful and creative."
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"In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker."
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"To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers."
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"Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement."
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"In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds."
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"If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate."
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"The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government."
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"In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist."
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"Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it."
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"The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene."
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"It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer."
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"There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists."
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"Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning."
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"The Universe provides abundantly when you're in a state of gratefulness."
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"You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state."
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"The steady state of disks is full."
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"We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!"
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"Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster."
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