Quotes 121 till 140 of 491.
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Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns.
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Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
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Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) XVIII, 11, 16 -
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
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Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
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He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.
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Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.
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Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
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I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.
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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
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I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.
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I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car.
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I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
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I have my strong views and opinions. I really want to transform Illinois government because this state is failing the taxpayers and the children.
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I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.
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