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The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
Glenn Gould
Art
Construction
State
Release
Rather
Purpose
Adrenaline
Lifelong
Wonder
Gradual
Momentary
Serenity
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.
Harry Stack Sullivan
Love
Own
Other
State
Circumstances
Significant
Security
Term
Another
Becomes
Exists
Person
Regardless
Then
Usage
Popular
Satisfaction
Present
The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston
State
Top
Only
Leaks
Known
Ship
Vessel
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
James Shirley
Death
Fate
Made
Dust
Down
State
Our
Must
Crooked
Kings
Shadows
Crown
Lays
Equal
Armour
His
Hand
Blood
Substantial
Tumble
Spade
Against
Poor
Icy
Things
The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.
Jeff Buckley
Life
Day
Age
Yourself
Worth
Living
Every
State
Worth Living
Possibly
Scarred
Could
Pouring
Day And Age
Over
Most
Audacious
Getting
Being
Against
Coal
Bashed
Thing
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
John Locke
Happy
World
Better
Sound Mind
Mind
Will
Wish
Else
State
More
He
Sound
Short
Anything
Wants
Anything Else
Either
Little
Them
Body
Full
Description
Two
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
John Locke
Change
World
Long
Nothing
State
Flux
Constant
Remains
Same
Things
We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.
John Lynch
Needs
Basic Needs
People
Obligation
Responsibility
Moral Obligation
Seniors
Pay
Too
State
Our
Moral
Citizens
Economic
Disabilities
Most
Protect
Vulnerable
Children
Justification
Basic
It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.
John Major
Time
Family
Respect
Yourself
People
Law
Values
Responsibility
Other
Others
State
Back
Consideration
Self-Discipline
Return
Accepting
Off
Get
Your
Shuffling
Basics
Core
Core Values
Happiness is perhaps painlessness, a state one rarely appreciates. Happiness, then, is very much like a great talent. It rarely gets appreciated and is taken for granted.
Kamal Haasan
Happiness
Great
Appreciates
State
Rarely
Taken
Taken For Granted
Talent
Great Talent
Like
Perhaps
Very
Gets
Then
Much
Granted
Appreciated
I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.
Lakhdar Brahimi
People
Responsibility
Made
Country
Think
State
Those
Generally
Fail
Failed
Who
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.
Lionel Trilling
Heart
Cynical
Believe
Living
State
Only
Authoritarian
Form
Utopia
Utopian
Profoundly
Imagine
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
Ludwig von Mises
History
State
Mischief
Main
Main Source
Disaster
Course
Been
Source
Often
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
Malcolm X
Man
Opportunity
Black
White
State
Honorable
Says
Given
Himself
Existence
Done
Separate
Should
Incentive
Muhammad
Right
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man
Generation
Valuable
State
Rising
More
Employment
Than
Who
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
Mikhail Bakunin
Liberty
Vice Versa
State
Individual
Individual Liberty
Versa
Ceases
Begins
Where
Vice
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part and discuss it only with consenting adults.
Molly Ivins
Love
Harmless
State
Consider
Only
Adult
Part
Dearly
Texas
Discuss
Perversion
Consenting
Fourteen-year-old boys are not part of a well-regulated militia. Members of wacky religious cults are not part of a well-regulated militia. Permitting unregulated citizens to have guns is destroying the security of this free state.
Molly Ivins
Free
State
Destroying
Members
Security
Citizens
Religious
Guns
Free State
Part
Boy
Wacky
Cults
Militia
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
Oliver Cromwell
Men
State
Willing
Takes
Faithfully
Opinions
Notice
Choosing
Satisfies
Serve
If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
Ronald Reagan
Political
Party
Other
Everybody
State
Would
Join
Come
Another
Because
Still
Existence
Political Party
Soviet
Soviet Union
Union
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
Sai Baba
Life
Love
Man
Peace
World
Past
Ambition
Live
State
Earthly
Ways
Those
Through
He
Instead
Material
His
Turmoil
Then
Created
Interests
Flow
I live in a constant state of gratitude, thankfulness, and appreciation for the second chance I was given, so anytime in any film, when that is given to someone, I always appreciate it.
Shawn Michaels
Gratitude
Appreciation
Live
Second Chance
State
Constant
Someone
Given
Always
Thankfulness
Any
Anytime
Film
Second
Chance
Appreciate
I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you.
Theophilus London
You
Mind
Believe
State
Atmosphere
Surroundings
Create
Your
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
Thurgood Marshall
Alone
Man
Business
First
Films
State
Books
Telling
No Business
He
First Amendment
House
Read
His
Amendment
Sitting
May
Anything
Means
Watch
Socialism is the gradual and less violent form of communism, and socialist is the project of the European Union, which was born in Maastricht in 1992. The intent was to save socialism in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the predictable bankruptcy of the welfare state in the West as well.
Vladimir Bukovsky
Communism
Socialism
Welfare
Berlin Wall
Fall
State
Project
Berlin
Born
Welfare State
Well
West
Wall
Gradual
Intent
Bankruptcy
Form
After
Predictable
Which
Less
Union
Europe
European
European Union
Socialist
Violent
Save
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
William James
Will
Become
Young
State
Would
Give
More
Could
Habits
Mere
Soon
How
Conduct
Walking
While
Heed
Realize
Plastic
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