States Quotes - Page 28

• Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

  Aristotle

  Party, Believe, Matter

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.184, Aristotle

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• Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love.

  John Milton

  Angel, Sight, Host

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.315, Pearson Education

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• Sadness is a state of sin.

  Andre Gide

  Sadness, Sin

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• I accept perfect health as the natural state of my being. I now consciously release any mental patterns within me that could express as dis-ease in any way. Perfect health is my Divine right, and I claim it now.

  Louise Hay

  Divine Right, Perfect, Patterns

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• I'm going to be happy. I'm going to skip. I'm going to be glad. I'm going to be easy. I'm going to count my blessings. I'm going to look for reasons to feel good. I'm going to dig up positive things from the past. I'm going to look for positive things where I stand. I'm going to look for positive things in the future. It is my natural state to be a happy person. It's natural for me to love and to laugh. This is what is most natural for me. I am a happy person.

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Blessing, Past

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• Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Boss, United States

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Military, War, Taught Us

  "Quote for the Day II". The year 1979 quote, www.theatlantic.com. January 09, 2007.

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• Laughing, how can you fall asleep? It brings a state of no-mind and no-thought, and does not allow you to fall asleep.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Funny, Fall

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• The most important thing we can do is prosecute the offenders, deal with those that have broken the law and committed this crime. And if we can do that then we can begin to deal with this issue and send a signal this is not a problem that we are going to ignore in the United States military.

  Leon Panetta

  Military, Law, Issues

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• A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Travel, Missing, Pieces

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.42

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• The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few.

  Mark Foley

  Country, Travel, New York

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• Military activities (are) not a role for the United States. There needs to be a number of steps that Maliki and his government must take to demonstrate that he is committed to an inclusive Iraq, something he has not done up to date.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Iraq, Numbers

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• This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight.

  David Petraeus

  Military, Fighting, Air

  "Kevin McCarthy talks Iraq, future of the GOP; latest on IRS scandal". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 22, 2014.

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• It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

  Joseph Goebbels

  School, Political, Public Opinion

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• Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.

  Adolf Hitler

  School, Textbooks, Let Me

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• A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Happiness, Unhappy, Disposition

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• The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Funny, Humor, Law

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• To live out of understanding is compassion. Never try to practice it, simply relax deep into meditation. Be in a state of let-go in meditation and suddenly you will be able to smell the fragrance that is coming from your own innermost depth. Then the flower blossoms and compassion spreads. Meditation is the flower and compassion is its fragrance.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Flower, Compassion

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• Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in the mind.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Mirrors, Meditation

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• To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words but through a wordless state called meditation or a state of no-mind, satori, samadhi.

  Rajneesh

  Silence, Meditation, Joy

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• In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no mind at all. A state of no-mind is meditation. When you can look without any mind interfering, distorting, interpreting, then you see the truth. The truth is already all around; just you have to put your mind aside.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Mind, Desire

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• The parents, the society, the state, the church, the educational system, they all depend on lies. As the child is born they start trapping it into lies. And the child is helpless. He cannot escape his parents, he is utterly dependent. You can exploit his dependence...and it has been exploited down the ages.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Educational, Lying

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• The science of meditation: it brings you to the present, it brings you to this moment. The past is a thought; it disappears when thoughts disappear. The future is also a thought; it disappears when you drop thinking. When you are in a state of no-thought - there is no past, no future, there is only the present - in that state of no-thought you are ONE, in tune with God. And suddenly the flood is there: you are flooded with light, with love, with grace. You are no more a man, you are divine. You have surpassed humanity. Humanity is in a state of deep sleep.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Past, Men

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• There is no possibility of relaxation if you have a mind and an ego; the ego is the center of the mind. You will be tense, you will remain tense. How to relax? Is there any way to relax? There is no way unless understanding is there. If you understand the nature of the world, the nature of the very existence, then who are you to worry, and why be in a worried state continuously?

  Rajneesh

  Worry, Understanding, Ego

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• God has a tremendous sense of humor! Religion remains something dead without a sense of humor as a foundation to it. God would not have been able to create the world if he had no sense of humor. God is not serious at all. Seriousness is a state of disease; humor is health. Love, laughter, life, they are aspects of the same energy.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Serious, Foundation

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