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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make wha

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. – Oscar Wilde

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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. – Oscar Wilde

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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. – Oscar Wilde

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good
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. – Oscar Wilde

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

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State

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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State

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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Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. – Robert Dale Owen

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On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program. – Danica Patrick

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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker. – Mikhail Bakunin

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In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue. – Paul Davies

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