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The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life. — Charles Krauthammer

When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure. — John D. Barrow

For me, love is an enhanced state of kindness, compassion, service, respect, and humility, an emotion I feel we are all here to give and to receive. — Nathan East

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace. — James D. Watkins

Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace. — James Thomson

State fairs are the confluence of the garish and the profound. — Douglas Wissing

I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults. — Rocco Buttiglione

I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood. — Carl Weathers

Love isn't a perfect state of caring ... — Fred Rogers

Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind. — J.I. Packer

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict — Juan Williams

A substitute shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by, and then his state
Empties itself, as dot an inland brook
Into the main of waters. — William Shakespeare

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight. — Gertrude Jekyll

After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century. — Pankaj Mishra

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law. — Michele Bachmann

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests — Karl Lagerfeld

As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. — Gore Vidal

Like any good novel, it lulled him into an almost tranquil state of awareness before it jolted him - it caught him completely by surprise. — John Irving

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

To pursue mental operations to any depth, a person has to learn to concentrate attention. Without focus, consciousness is in a state of chaos. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it. — Kenneth E. Boulding

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State. — Sophocles

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death. — W.C. Fields

That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream. — Jon Foreman

Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up. — Irvine Welsh

A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics. — Arlen Specter

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. — Terence

Life is simply a particular state of organized instability. — Addy Pross

Until egoism reaches the non-existent state, there is nothing but fear in the worldly life. — Dada Bhagwan

Penn State is a leader in food science. — Don Sherwood

For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade. — Noam Chomsky

Our current state of affairs reduces to poverty people born for better things. — Matthew Desmond

Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. — Tom Holland

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. — Aristotle.

technological singularity," the state at which computer intelligence will have overtaken our own. — David Lagercrantz

Christ, even my staff have noticed that something's rotten in the state of fucking Denmark. — E.L. James

Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts. — Mitt Romney

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure. — John Grierson

The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and ... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover. — Louis De Broglie

Tantric Zen is a state of mind — Frederick Lenz

I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union speech. — Jim Jordan

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind. — Val Kilmer

A highly developed country of the past, in an advanced state of decay). — Shashi Tharoor

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one. — Francis Bacon

He who (tries to) govern a state by his wisdom is a scourge to it; while he who does not (try to) do so is a blessing. — Lao-Tzu

Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking ... If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it. — Jonathan M. Wainwright

Being the only Asian-American in the State Legislature, I've had no choice but to reach across the aisle. — Grace Meng

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality. — Friedrich Schiller

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security. — Stephen Harper

The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong. — Barack Obama

she was, whichever city or state, whatever mood she was in, there was nothing like a book store to fill her up with happiness. — Lauren Gilley

He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince. — Laozi

The present is never a happy state to any human being. — Samuel Johnson

It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen, but it is extremely unlikely. — Frederick Lenz

I go home in a state of unspeakable bliss, and waltz in imagination, all night long, with my arm around the blue waist of my dear divinity. — Charles Dickens

When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion. — Walter J. Ong

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon

The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family. — Martin Jacques

I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel. — Benjamin Netanyahu

The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us. — Llewellyn Rockwell

If you are in 'motion' than you are in a normal [moving] state, and if you are 'emotional' than you are in an agitated state. — Dada Bhagwan

Do not kill the childishness inside you. It is the state that connects you to God. — Alok Jagawat

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. — Cormac McCarthy

For Art alone is great:
The bust survives the state,
The crown the potentate. — Theophile Gautier

Split up means being in state of being an a victim which can be killed easy. — Deyth Banger

A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state. — Sophocles

With effort, reach to effortlessness. With seeking, reach to a state of no-seeking. With mind, arrive at no-mind. — Rajneesh

I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole and a 350,000 job loss to a $2 billion surplus and a gain of 350,000 jobs. — John Kasich

Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him. — Mao Zedong

The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting. — Sri Aurobindo

Common Core's become a one-size-fits-all program that simply doesn't make sense for our state," Jindal said at a news conference. — Anonymous

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Only by changing the state of consciousness can we change mankind. — Debasish Mridha

I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat. — Erin Wasson

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting. — Terence McKenna

Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate. — Jeb Bush

The Church must run the risk of dilution rather than leave the state to the cold light of reason, unwarmed by tenderness. — Martin Luther

Tranquillity was not a state of mind that could be sustained for long. — Arthur C. Clarke

If you are unhappy with your life and the state of the world, the best place to start changing things is within yourself. — Bryant McGill

K-State is a dangerous team. Those are the kind of teams you don't want to see in the tournament. — Kelvin Sampson

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids. — Frank Chodorov

The dream gives a true picture of the subjective state, while the conscious mind denies that this state exists, or recognizes it only grudgingly. — C. G. Jung

Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'. — Minor White

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.' — Chris Pine

Fascism is [ ... ] arbitrary rule by a charismatic head of state. — Tibor R. Machan

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell

The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end. — Kami Garcia

Can't trust a fascist
truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state — Matthew Woodring Stover

Trump University had neither a license nor a charter from New York State certifying it as an institution of higher education. — Eric Schneiderman

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. — Thomas Jefferson

That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents. — Barbara Mertz

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion. — Haruki Murakami

That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots. — Craig Ferguson

My weight is a bit like the state of my bank account; if I don't check the balance I can't get upset. — Ruth Saberton

I am always in a state of Eunoia.

And I'm not in it just for the vowels. — Mark Bradford

The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews. — Julius Streicher