#state

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement. ↗

— Harold Pinter

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While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known. ↗

— Harold Pinter

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The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs. ↗

— Henri Pirenne

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How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ↗

— Plato

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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. ↗

— Plato

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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens. ↗

— Plato

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A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. ↗

— Plato

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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state. ↗

— Plato

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. ↗

— Plato

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I am a United States citizen and I vote. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

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