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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Erich Fromm

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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
America
Carlos Fuentes

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
Power
John Kenneth Galbraith

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More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.
Food and Eating
John Kenneth Galbraith

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
Action
John Galsworthy

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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Faith
Mahatma Gandhi

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The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
Widowhood
John Gay

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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
Past
John Guare

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Good temper is an estate for life.
Temper
William Hazlitt

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.
Fear
Napoleon Hill

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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Profits
Thomas Hobbes

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
Law and Lawyers
Charles Evans Hughes

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And lastly, let us provide in our constitution for its revision at stated periods.
Uncategorised
Thomas Jefferson

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.
Happiness
Samuel Johnson

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Safety of the state is the highest law.
Government
Justinian

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
Poverty and The Poor
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
Travel and Tourism
John Keats

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A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.
Tyranny
John F. Kennedy

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The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
Progress
John F. Kennedy

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
John Maynard Keynes

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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
Science and Scientists
Paul Klee

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I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Milan Kundera

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
Self-knowledge
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
State
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Politicians and Politics
Abraham Lincoln

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun