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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.
Beast Mode On is a state of mind. Beast Mode is about applying yourself and defying the limitations people put on you.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
I think Puerto Rico becoming a state would fulfill the destiny of 3.5 million American citizens that live in Puerto Rico.
I did 'XXX: State of the Union' with Ice Cube because he and Samuel L. Jackson are some of favorite inspirations in life.
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.
I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.
Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part and discuss it only with consenting adults.
Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'
I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.
I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.
Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our state.
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above all men and their individual aspirations.
The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
Crime takes place in every country. But it becomes abuse when the state is unwilling and unable to protect the life and honour of its citizens.
There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.
The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
The original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers.
Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.
If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.
I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.
Overhead costs are far too high, state support is dropping, and college tuition is far too expensive. Colleges are pricing themselves out of existence.