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• In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That’s how I got involved; I got involved in a little play.

  Danny Glover

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• The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded.

  Frederick William Borden

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• When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.

  Arlen Specter

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• We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.

  Bill Richardson

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• I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn’t exist.

  Berkeley Breathed

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• The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters – raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn’t any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

  Tom Stoppard

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• The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

  Georges Bernanos

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• A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

  Sophocles

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• I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

  Sophocles

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• During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

  Famke Janssen

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  Tags in State, Religious, Deeply

• I’m very proud of what we’ve done with the State University and the City University. They’re totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

  George Pataki

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• You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they’re not doing what they can.

  George Pataki

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• Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.

  Steven Chu

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• In London, nobody comments on what you wear – they think that’s not important to you or your state of well-being.

  Steven Berkoff

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• ‘The Portrait of Dorian Grey’ beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.

  Walton Goggins

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• Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents.

  Mel Martinez

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• Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.

  Jack Markell

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• We’re in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

  Ed Koch

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• The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood.

  George B. McClellan

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• Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

  Jonathan Kozol

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