"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us."
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"Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe."
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"The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity."
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"God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state."
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"Peace is our natural state of being."
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"What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth."
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"The welfare state is an assault on families."
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"Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same."
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"I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief."
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"A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy."
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"Misgovernment...will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours."
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"Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation."
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"As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence."
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"Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity."
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"I love it in the States. The roads are big, the food is big. If it was possible to be in L.A. and still live my racing life, I would move now."
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"Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence."
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"History shows that when a state is intent upon making war against another state, even though not adjacent, it begins to seek frontiers across which it could reach the frontiers of the state which it desires to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds that frontier."
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"A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state."
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"All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind."
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"When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states."
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