States Quotes - Page 9

• A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you from that state - your compulsive habits, outmoded beliefs, false associations, and other mental structures. Just when our lives are starting to get better, we may feel like things are getting worse - because for the first time we see clearly what needs to be done.

  Dan Millman

  Spiritual, Get Better, Enlightenment

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.15, H J Kramer

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• All beings exist in an invisible state and then come to a state of visibility. Change occurs only on the surface, for the self-existent glory remains unchanged; changing form does not affect the self-existent Reality. Atman, Soul or the Self, dwells in all that is perishable, yet it remains imperishable.

  Rama Swami

  God, Spiritual, Reality

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• Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.

  Mike Turzai

  Winning, Pennsylvania, Done

  "Pennsylvania Republican: Voter ID Laws Are ‘Gonna Allow Governor Romney To Win’" by Annie-Rose Strasser, thinkprogress.org. June 25, 2012.

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• I believe we can seize this future together, because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. [...] We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions. [...] We are and forever will be the United States of America. [...] We will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on Earth.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Ambition, America

  Obama's victory speech, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. November 7th, 2012.

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• The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light. For these reasons, we believe it important for the President of the United States to tell the American public and the world what we think is wrong on fundamental ethical principles to initiate the development of such a weapon.

  Enrico Fermi

  Believe, Thinking, Light

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• When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga. Yoga is the state of no-mind. If you can be without the mind without doing any posture, you have become a perfect yogi. It has happened to many without doing any postures, and it has not happened to many who have been doing postures for many lives.

  Rajneesh

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.

  Stephen A. Schwarzman

  Income, Levels, Wealth

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• In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

  Anatole France

  Democracy, Sacred Things, Wealth

  L'Ile des pingouins (Penguin Island, 1908) pt. 6, ch. 2

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• Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Wisdom, Nature

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• As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence.

  Jerry Brown

  Sorry, Europe, Excellence

  "Jerry Brown Blasts Teacher Unionization Bill / Charter schools' self-determination at stake, he says" by Rick DelVecchio, www.sfgate.com. May 22, 1999.

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• The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Strong, Mean, People

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• We operate here under directives which emanate from the White House... The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to alter life in the United States such that we can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union.

  Horace Rowan Gaither

  White, Government, House

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• The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

  John Boyd Orr

  Real, Evil, Police

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• The time has come to recognize the United Nations for the anti-American, anti-freedom organization that it has become. The time has come for us to cut off all financial help, withdraw as a member, and ask the United Nations to find headquarters location outside the United States that is

  Barry Goldwater

  Cutting, Organization, United States

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• Communism which feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls shall not take root in the United States.

  Emanuel Celler

  Men, Roots, Hatred

  "You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler".

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• In contrast, compassion manifests in us as the offering of kindness rather than withdrawal. Because compassion is a state of mind that is itself open, abundant and inclusive, it allows us to meet pain more directly. With direct seeing, we know that we are not alone in our suffering and that no one need feel alone when in pain. Seeing our oneness is the beginning of compassion, and it allows us to reach beyond aversion and separation.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Pain, Kindness, Compassion

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “The Kindness Handbook: A Practical Companion”, p.24, Sounds True

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• It's a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that's been important to you. It's actually not all that pleasurable. I don't know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can't bear an hour without somebody's company.

  Colin Firth

  Love, Important, Want

  Elle Magazine Interview, www.firth.com. January 2004.

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• The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter.

  Alan Watts

  Happiness, Laughter, Believe

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• With all the power that a president has, the most important thing to bear in mind is this: You must not give power to a man unless, above everything else, he has character. Character is the most important qualification the president of the United States can have.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Leadership, Character, Men

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• Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. And a tail is an awkward thing to laugh with, as you can see by the way they bend themselves half double in extreme hilarity trying to get that rear-end exuberance forward into the main scene of action. What puts man on a higher stage of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.

  Max Eastman

  Happiness, Dog, Laughter

  "Enjoyment of Laughter".

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• When you really laugh, for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together...If you are still thinking. laughter will be just so-so...It will be a crippled laughter.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Thinking, Laughing

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• When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

  Miles Franklin

  Friendship, Real, Love Is

  Miles Franklin (1984). “The End of My Career”

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• I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fall, Science, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, J. R. De J. Jackson (2000). “Lectures 1818-1819 on the history of philosophy”, Bollingen Foundation

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• It is certainly true in the United States that there is an uneasiness about certain aspects of science, particularly evolution, because it conflicts, in some people's minds, with their sense of how we all came to be. But you know, if you are a believer in God, it's hard to imagine that God would somehow put this incontrovertible evidence in front of us about our relationship to other living organisms and expect us to disbelieve it. I mean, that doesn't make sense at all.

  Francis Collins

  Mean, Science, Imagination

  "Dr. Francis Collins: ‘There Is An Uneasiness’ About Evolution". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2014.

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• It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible.

  Henri Bergson

  Science, Past, Survival

  Henri Bergson (2014). “Creative Evolution”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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