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134 quotesNo statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Authority
Hans Reichenbach
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The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
Government
James Reston
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
Secrets
Cardinal De Richelieu
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Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.
Excellence
James H. Robinson
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
Life and Living
Carl Rogers
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Virtue
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.
New World
R. W. ''Tiny'' Rowland
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
Unity
Sallust
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Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
Experts
Lord Samuel
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Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
Security
Seneca
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
War
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Lies and Lying
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.
Mind
John Steinbeck
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Politicians and Politics
Adlai E. Stevenson
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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
Firmness
Adlai E. Stevenson
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I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.
Existence
Sting
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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
Law and Lawyers
Max Stirner
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
Law and Lawyers
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
Law and Lawyers
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Dylan Thomas
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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
Peace
James Thomson
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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
Leisure
Henry David Thoreau
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The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
Words
Henry David Thoreau
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Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.
Poverty and The Poor
Mike Todd
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The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
Uncategorised
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun