Quotes with state

Quotes 221 till 240 of 491.

  • Blaise Pascal Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • William S. Burroughs Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Samuel Butler Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Samuel Johnson Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Günter Grass Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Charles Dickens Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Charles Dickens Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bob Holden Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings.
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  • David Seabury Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ''ambivalence'': a collision between thought and feeling.
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Ari Fleischer Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens.
    Ari Fleischer
    American media consultant and political aide (1960 - )
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  • James Baldwin Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Marquis de Sade Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Buffalo Bill My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Henry David Thoreau My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bill Bryson My father liked Iowa. He lived his whole life in the state, and is even now working his way through eternity there, in Glendale Cemetery in Des Moines.
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Ben Stein My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Camille Paglia My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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