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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. - Henri Freder

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is. – G. W. F. Hegel

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Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else. – Simone Weil

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The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the States ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners. – Jean Dubuffet

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Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that were always trying to live up to. – Andrew Cohen

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Keep your minds open, but not so open that your brains fall out. – Walter Kotschnig, c.1940

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Yoga has a sly, clever way of short-circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. – Baxter Bell, quoted in “Worry Thwarts,” Yoga Journal, March 2006

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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences. – Benjamin Franklin

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