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Freedom is neither guaranteed nor automatic; not even in the United States. Left unguarded, it can slip away like a thief in the night.
An emotion occurs when there are certain biological, certain experiential, and certain cognitive states which all occur simultaneously.
Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.
Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.
Increasingly, we are seeing cyber attacks coming from states, organs of states. The most recent and troubling of these has been Russia.
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the world as well - is a long-term process.
If we really reflect and discriminate, we'll find that all things are created by our perception, that all states exist within the mind.
Donald Trump feels very warmly about the Jewish state, about the Jewish people and about Jewish people. There's no question about that.
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
The States were much more fun. L.A. was L.A. It's not L.A. now. L.A. infested with jaded 12-year-olds is not the L.A. that I really dug.
I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about.
The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.
Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on? We are the intelligence committee and we didn't know that.
We have very strong environmental laws in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The problem is that they're seldom enforced.
Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved.
If you're not willing to have somebody hauled off at gunpoint over the project, then it's probably not a legitimate concern of the state.
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.
This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.
The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period.
While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable of "enslavement."
We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.
Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.
The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
I was in the Minnesota state Senate from 2000 until 2006. In 2006, I was urged to run for Congress, I did. And I've been here ever since.
As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.
It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.
I think politics should be expressed in this way and not in other ways. And not just politics - sentiments, even certain states of being.
Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.
The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities and mayors.
Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.
Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.
I know how critical it is to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions have affordable insurance, and states are able to do that.
We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.
The Confederacy was formed for the purpose of seceding from the Union because those states could not part with their rights to own slaves.
A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.
I'd like to get to a state where people think that if you've Googled something, you've researched it, and otherwise haven't, and that's it.
'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.
You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.
The United States needs an energy policy that ensures America's tax, trade, regulatory and access policies are transparent and predictable.
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.
There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.
Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.
The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.
When I stand up here, and I'm fighting for your rights and the rights of all people in these United States of America, I am a true patriot.