States Quotes - Page 35

• Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.

  Germaine Greer

  Feminism, Liberation, Ifs

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• From depression to ceiling fans, I've been through it all. I've taken almost every step that life has to offer and invariably I've found several different endings to my Choose Your Own Adventure stories. I've lived, loved, sacrificed and scraped for this existence, this paltry little city state I call my time so far. And by God, I wouldn't change a single frame of this movie.

  Corey Taylor

  Taken, Memorable, Adventure

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• I believe that we are at the point now, in the United States, where a movement is beginning to emerge.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Believe, United States, Movement

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 15, 2007.

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• Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation and maintenance of the power of the national state-that is, the mainstay of all the priveleges of the exploiters throughout the nation.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  War, Passion, Views

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• How many ages hence
  Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
  In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Age, Scene

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 111

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• We do not need an imported system for falsifying elections! We will create our own, one run by the state!

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Running, Memorable, Needs

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• One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified absolutely. The only thing we can do is arrive at a state of increased awareness that allows us to perceive the world around us in a more inclusive manner.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Knowledge, Intelligent, Fleeting

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• I've always been called a professional opportunist, and in the future I'm open to anything. We've spent a lot of time offshore, looking at opportunities in real estate outside the United States.

  Sam Zell

  Real, Opportunity, United States

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• It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Ideas, People

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.67, Macmillan

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• A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.

  John D. Voelker

  Husband, Writing, Appreciate

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• I faxed a transfer request to the club at the beginning of the week, but let me state that I don't want to leave Leicester.

  Stan Collymore

  Soccer, Clubs, Want

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• Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals who compose it, which means that their craving for devotion and self-sacrifice is satisfied in a democratic society on a nobler level, and with a finer recognition of the value of individual personality than is true of a national purpose of a totalitarian state under a dictator.

  Ordway Tead

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

  Attributed to Ordway Tead in "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life", p. 138, 1950.

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• We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all-that the wealth of individuals and of state is being diverted from the development and the progress of human expression and civilization.

  Margaret Sanger

  Expression, Should Have, Civilization

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.371, Inkling Books

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• The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

  Tom Mix

  Cowboy, Mind, Want

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• Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

  Minor White

  Photography, Inspiration, Creative

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• Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Sunday, Today

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• The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Government, Law, Foundation

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.47, FastPencil Inc

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• There is a gap between the knowledge, skills, or state of mind of the learner and what he is to learn, which it seems to me any teaching activity must seek to bridge if it is to deserve that label. Teaching activities must therefore take place at a level where the pupil can take on what it is intended he should learn.

  Paul Q. Hirst

  Teaching, Bridges, Skills

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• Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess

  Frank Brady

  Pride, Player, Mind

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• Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Nature, Soul, Details

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• A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.

  Seth Godin

  Impossible Things, Possible And Impossible, Practice

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• Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.

  Michel de Montaigne

  World, Incredibles, Aids

  Michel de Montaigne (1965). “Complete Essays”, p.166, Stanford University Press

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• Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it become indescribable, indefinable.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blessed, Believe, Perfect

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.58, A&C Black

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• It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live in.

  Annie Laurie Gaylor

  Gay, Simple, Rights

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• We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are - whether it's here in the United States or, as Hillary (Clinton) mentioned, more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda.

  Barack Obama

  Gay, Uganda, Law

  "In His Own Words: President Obama's Nuanced View on Gay Marriage". Remarks by the President Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC, www.foxnews.com. February 4, 2010.

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