If the media is just a cheerleader for an authoritarian populist, who isn't that popular, then we're in a sorry state. The media has to be critical - it has to scrutinize it, it has to call out things.
I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.
Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.
The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme
Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. . . . What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost.
I think my major challenge, very frankly, is to maintain the traction,. . . I've seen many campaigns here in the state of New Hampshire look good for a while, and then the air comes out of the balloon.
The most powerful state for a human to be in is the state of embracing completely the reality of what is - Now. It is to say "Yes" to life, which is now and always now. There is a vast power in that "Yes," that state of inner non-resistance to what is.
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.
The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene.
In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.
In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state.
All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.
That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen. . . . It moreover equally enables the general and state governments to originate the amendment of errors as they may be pointed out by the experience on one side or on the other.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of. . . the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and ernter into another. . . . Now what liberty can there be where property is taken away without consent?
About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don’t work.
Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.
I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.