Quotes with state-backed

Quotes 401 till 420 of 496.

  • Plutarch To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • George Santayana To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Al Oerter To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.
    Al Oerter
    American athlete (1936 - 2007)
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  • Alfred Jarry To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a ''mummified'' form.
    Alfred Jarry
    French playwright, author (1873 - 1907)
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  • Bob Rae To suggest that the global market-place of the twenty first century there will be no role for the state and the public sector is clearly nonsense.
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    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Plato To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • John Berger Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why - but the editorialists forget it - terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Bobby Scott Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • W. D. Roscommon True poets are the guardians of the state.
    W. D. Roscommon
    English poet (1633 - 1685)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Bradley A. Smith Ultimately, the court is heading to a doctrine of 'separation of campaign and state.' This doctrine, like separation of church and state or separation of military and civilian authority, is not explicit in the Constitution but flows naturally from its structure and commitment to freedom and democracy.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Bill Flores Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals and go to juvenile detention as offenders.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Alcee Hastings Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Basil King Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.
    Basil King
    Canadian preacher and novelist (1859 - 1928)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Isadora Duncan Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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