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But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.
Thomas Reid
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Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.


Paul Theroux
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.


Yotam Ottolenghi
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
L. Frank Baum
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Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.


John Shirley
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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.


Emile M. Cioran
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.
Allan Savory
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life. Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
John Burroughs
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This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.
George Grey
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I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you.


Theophilus London
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.
Paul Auster
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Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.


Damon Galgut
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.


Oscar Wilde
The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim.
Teddy Thompson
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
Henri Bergson
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
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I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I want to start a foundation to give back, I want it to be for kids in hard circumstances, and I want it to be culinary-driven, because that's who I am.
Emeril Lagasse
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You can tell the state of civilization by the way people dress. If the people who fought two World Wars came back to 2010 and saw all of us running around in tracksuits, what would they think? It is just about being sloppy.
Daphne Guinness
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Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.
Philip Hammond
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