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States Quotes - Page 63

I often yearn to regress into a state that's slightly more atavistic than my decades of conditioning generally allow, but it's difficult to let go of those reigns.

"Keith Murray of We Are Scientists: Examining Life with Humor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

"The Garden of Forking Paths". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1942.

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.239, OUP Oxford

Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.

John Owen (1772). “A practical exposition of the CXXX. psalm: Wherein The Nature of the Forgiveness of Sin is declared, the Truth and Reality of it asserted; and The Case of a Soul distressed with the Guilt of Sin, and relieved by a Discovery of Forgiveness with God, is at large discoursed”, p.371

Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.

John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing