Quotes with state-backed

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  • Caitlin Rose 'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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  • Bill Hader 'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley ...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Aristotle A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • William S. Burroughs A functioning police state needs no police.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • John Galsworthy A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • C. S. Lewis A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles A. Garfield A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
    Charles A. Garfield
    American psychologist and author (1944 - )
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  • William Wordsworth A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • John Stuart Mill A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • John F. Kennedy A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Anne Bradstreet A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
    Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization's struggle against oppression.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • John Locke A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Barbara Ann Radnofsky A State can sue for negligence as well as fraud damages.
    Barbara Ann Radnofsky
    American politician, author and mediator (1956 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Edmund Burke A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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