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States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.
Arne Duncan
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States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
Robert Frost
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States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive - usually, the resistance.
Arundhati Roy
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States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.
Plato
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States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
Victor Davis Hanson
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States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.
David Graeber
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States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications the first bad weather kills them
Niccolo Machiavelli
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States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.
Susan Orlean
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States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.
John Bruton
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States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.
H. G. Wells
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States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
George W. Bush
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States are great engines moving slowly.
Francis Bacon
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States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.
George W. Bush
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States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent to the extent that they're powerful, that's roughly accurate.
Noam Chomsky
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States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.
Alexander Hamilton
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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
Walter Savage Landor
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States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.
John Mearsheimer
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States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.
John Mearsheimer
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States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable
Murray Rothbard
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States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.
Stefan Zweig
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States kill when they apply the death penalty, when they send their people to war, or when they carry out extra-judicial or summary executions. They can also kill by omission, when they fail to guarantee to their people access to the bare essentials for life.
Pope Francis
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States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies.
George Herbert
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States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.
Roger Scruton
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States and counties routinely bear the costs associated with incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens once they enter the criminal justice system.
Michael Dean Crapo
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