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  • Bill Richardson As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Adam Schiff At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • John Updike Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Aeschines Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
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  • Alex Cox Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the mental state of the protagonist.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Rauner Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state government.
    Bruce Rauner
    American businessman, philanthropist and politician (1956 - )
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  • Mike Todd Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.
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  • Alija Izetbegovic Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.
    Alija Izetbegovic
    Bosnian politician
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  • Bethenny Frankel Bravo can't be responsible for the mental state of every single person that comes onto their network.
    Bethenny Frankel
    American reality television personality, entrepreneur, and author (1970 - )
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  • Alexander Pope But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Harriet Martineau But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Edmund Burke But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators, the instruments, not the guides of the people.
    Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Benjamin Tucker But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Ian Mcewan By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State's crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.
    Ian Mcewan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Rollo May Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
    Rollo May
    American psychologist
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  • Blake Farenthold Census data influences decisions made from Main Street to Wall Street, in Congress and with the Federal Reserve. Not to mention, the American people who look to, and trust, the data the government releases on our nation's unemployment, state of our economy, and health insurance coverage.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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