Quotes with state

Quotes 241 till 260 of 491.

  • Blaise Pascal Nature gives us... passions and desires suitable to our present state. We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves...
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Dylan Thomas Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
    Dylan Thomas
    English poet (1914 - 1953)
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  • Albert Einstein Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bill Dedman New York state ethics rules prohibit lawyers from soliciting gifts from clients 'for the benefit of the lawyer or a person related to the lawyer.'
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Anton Chekhov No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Bob Ehrlich No one heard about Bill Clinton on his first trip to New Hampshire. I showed Mike Huckabee around the state years before he ran, and no one knew him then, either.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Bobby Heenan North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?
    Bobby Heenan
    American professional wrestler (1944 - 2017)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Jonson Not to know vice at all, and keep true state,
    Is virtue, and not fate:
    Next to that virtue is to know vice well,
    And her black spite expel.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio Epode, lines 1-4.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Francis Bacon Nothing doch more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Francis Bacon Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
    Essays (1625) Of cunning
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Bob Riley Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demilitarized state next to us that recognizes the Jewish State. We're willing to recognize their state, the Palestinian state. But we ask them to recognize the Jewish state.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • St. Teresa of Avila O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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