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• Israel wants to make it clear to the government of Egypt that it has no aggressive intentions whatsoever against any Arab state at all

  Levi Eshkol

  War, Government, Israel

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• Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.

  Abba Eban

  War, Doubt, Cairo

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• The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations.

  Edward Snowden

  Memorable, Definitions, Consideration

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• 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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• In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring gaze upon the State, with a truly filial look, as upon the Father of the flock.

  Randolph Bourne

  Country, War, Father

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• The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode in foreign politics when it is especially an act of internal politics and the most atrocious act of all . . . Since the directing apparatus has no other way of fighting the enemy than by sending its own soldiers, under compulsion, to their death-the war of one state against another state resolves itself into a war of the state and the military apparatus against its own people.

  Simone Weil

  Military, War, Fighting

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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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• War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Blessing

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.236, Algora Publishing

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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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• We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Running, Equality, Entrepreneur

  Arthur C. Brooks (2011). “The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future”, p.63, Basic Books

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• I am honored to be both an active surrogate and a member of the RNC's Hispanic advisory council. The national effort to work seamlessly with our state parties has improved our landscape and chances with Latino voters, not just in San Diego but across the country.

  Rosario Marin

  Country, Party, Opportunity

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• If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train.

  Anthony Storr

  Writing, Men, Creative

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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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• The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Trying, Stories

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.409, Macmillan

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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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• The fact is that, under a capitalistic system, the ultimate bosses are the consumers. The sovereign is not the state, it is the people.

  Ludwig von Mises

  People, Boss, Facts

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.21, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the lower classes, from a fear of not providing well for their families, or among the higher classes, from a fear of lowering their condition in life.

  Thomas Malthus

  Class, Eugenics, Euthanasia

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.49, Penguin UK

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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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