States Quotes - Page 27

• False liberty is also a reason that people fabricate doctrines that say that you don't need to suffer. One such doctrine is the one that states that Jesus has done everything, so we need not do anything that opposes our flesh or self-will. False liberty is also manifest when people scorn souls who are striving to live a God-fearing life, saying that these live in bondage.

  Johan Oscar Smith

  Jesus, Life Changing, Self

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• I honestly believe that if I decided to be the president of the United States, I could do it. That might sound foolish to some. But in my mind, if Ronald Reagan can become president, why not Will Smith?

  Will Smith

  Attitude, Believe, Mind

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• Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point. . .

  Rajneesh

  Life, Friendly, Friendliness

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• Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Paradise, Hell

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• The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human failings. They are the only consistent art in the United States which constantly remind us of our limitations while encouraging us to see how far we can actually go. When understood in their more profound implication, they are a corrective, an attempt to draw a line upon man's own limitless assertion.

  Ralph Ellison

  Music, Art, Men

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “Shadow and Act”, p.245, Vintage

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• We join the call from other States from our region

  Laura Chinchilla

  War, Drug, Regions

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• In case you haven't noticed, a large wall is being built around the American people to ensure that they remain prisoner to the drug industry. It's easy to understand why drug makers want to force Americans to buy their products in the United States. Ours is the only industrialized country that doesn't negotiate the prices the drug companies may charge. As a result, a 90-day supply of Fosamax sells for $105 in Canada but $210 here.

  Froma Harrop

  Country, Wall, People

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• You can at least let sick people have marijuana because it's helpful. But the compassionate conservatives say, well we can't do this, we're going to put people who are sick and dying with cancer and are being helped with marijuana if they have multiple sclerosis - the federal government is going in there and overriding state laws and putting people like that in prison.

  Ron Paul

  Cancer, Marijuana, Government

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• In love the heavens themselves do guide the state;
  Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Fate, Land

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe (1807). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, with Explanatory Notes: To which is Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.73

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• The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism.

  Zuheir Mohsen

  Struggle, Islamic, Mean

  "Wij zijn alleen Palestijn om politieke reden". "Trouw", March 31, 1977.

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• They are going to leave [Gaza], not because this is a gift from Israel. This is because they failed to confront our people, so don't describe their withdrawal from here...as a gift for the Palestinians. This is because they are defeated here. HAMAS will never recognize the existence of a Jewish State in the region.

  Zuheir Mohsen

  Islamic, Israel, People

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• All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Islamic, Worry

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• O you who reproach me, regarding my love, excuse me.
  From me to you if you do justice, you would not reproach me.
  My state (of love) has been expressed to you, (now) my secret is no longer concealed.

  Busiri

  Wisdom, Islamic, Justice

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• The Srimad-Bhagavatam states that any bona fide preacher of God consciousness must have the qualities of titiksa (tolerance) and karuna (compassion). In the character of Lord Jesus Christ we find both these qualities.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Jesus, Character, Compassion

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• The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Beautiful, People, Heaven

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• From a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn is generally dependent on karmic forces, our state of mind at the time of death can influence the quality of our next rebirth. So at the moment of death, in spite of the great variety of karmas we have accumulated, if we make a special effort to generate a virtuous state of mind, we may strengthen and activate a virtuous karma, and so bring about a happy rebirth.

  Dalai Lama

  Death, Karma, Buddhist

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• If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no idea of what continues, no knowledge of the new dimension of the deeper reality of the nature of mind. So it is vital for us all to familiarize ourselves with the nature of mind while we are still alive. Only then will we be prepared for the time when it reveals itself spontaneously and powerfully at the moment of death; be able to recognize it "as naturally," the teachings say, "as a child running into its mother's lap"; and by remaining in that state, finally be liberated.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Mother, Running

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Oct 27, 2014

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• At the moment of death, there are two things that count: whatever we have done in our lives, and what state of mind we are in at that very moment. Even if we have accumulated a lot of negative karma, if we are able to make a real change of heart at the moment of death, it can decisively influence our future, and transform our karma, for the moment of death is an exceptionally powerful opportunity to purify karma.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Karma, Powerful

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• [I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum.

  William Rehnquist

  Death, Dying, Liberty

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• Sometimes things just happen. Sometimes surfing this bank from Snapper to Kirra, sometimes you don't even think what you're doing but you do it anyway ... You get to the end of a wave and go, what did I do? Sometimes you go into a totally different state of mind.

  Mick Fanning

  Sports, Thinking, Surfing

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• Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the society in which they live and the economy in which they work. Most critically, our responsibility in this parliament is how that power is used: whether it is used for the benefit of the few or the many.

  Kevin Rudd

  Leadership, Responsibility, Power

  Kevin Rudd (2017). “Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007”, p.9, Macmillan Publishers Aus.

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• You have to perform to the best of your ability, and if you have to argue stringently, if you have to persist and to state your case strongly, then you do it.

  Bronwyn Bishop

  Wisdom, Arguing, Cases

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• Verily, I say unto you, that the wisdom of man, in his fallen state, knoweth not the purposes and the privileges of my hold priesthood, but ye shall know when ye receive a fullness by reason of the anointing: For it is my will, that in time, ye should take unto you wives of the Lamanites and Nephites, that their posterity may become white, delightsome and just, for even now their females are more virtuous then the gentiles.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Native American, Men, White

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• If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may crowd the headlines, but this is our fundamental challenge. Big challenges require bold action and leadership. To get the United States off fossil fuels in this uneasy national climate of terrorism and conflict in the Persian Gulf, we must treat the issue with the urgence and persistance it deserves. The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

  Robert Redford

  Issues, Challenges, Way

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• Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Turkeys, Leader

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.42, Seven Stories Press

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