{"quotes":[{"text":"We inter-change ideas. You can stay in the United States and inspire people in Indonesia. You can stay in Ghana and inspire people in Turkey. You can stay in Nigeria and inspire people in cote'd voire. You can stay in Senegal and inspire people in China and vice versa.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["achievers","believe","believers","country","giving-out","heart","hearts","ideas","inspiration","inspirational","inspire","metamorphosis","michael-bassey-johnson","motivating","motivation","power","reciprocating-ideas","spreading-knowledge","states","win","winner","winning-hearts","wisdom","wise","words"],"id":27376,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the introduction to some epic science-fiction film, then shining brightly on that list would be the fact that we exist in a financial universe that is subject to massive gravitational pulls from states. States tug at us. States bend us. And, tirelessly, states seek to determine our orbits.","author":"Mohsin Hamid","tags":["bureaucracy","government","state","states"],"id":44696,"author_id":"Mohsin+Hamid"},{"text":"I'm getting a daily email from Microsoft which I have been ignoring that states a hacker is trying to access my account. As far as the Microsoft account goes, the hacker can have it...Along with all of the nasty Windows 10 upgrade problems!","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["10","access","account","all","along","daily","email","far","goes","hacker","ignoring","microsoft","nasty","problems","states","trying","upgrade","windows"],"id":95317,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"You can put the human mind and body into strange states through the use of alien environments.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["alien","body","environments","human","into","mind","put","states","strange","through","use","you"],"id":118123,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucracy. If the slightest mistake can end a career, then no one will ever take risks.","author":"Francis Fukuyama","tags":["governance","innovation","risk","states"],"id":203110,"author_id":"Francis+Fukuyama"},{"text":"When I looked at a map in town, Rhode Island seemed lost up there in the corner. A state so small and crowded, there didn't seem to be room for a person at all.","author":"Michelle Hoover","tags":["home","maps","rhode-island","ri","states"],"id":239118,"author_id":"Michelle+Hoover"},{"text":"The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","collectivism","communism","countries","delusion","democracy","evil","fascism","freedom","government","knowledge","libertarian","liberty","mafia","nationalism","nations","nazis","patriotism","philosophy","politics","psychopath","rationality","religion","self-esteem","self-knowledge","socialism","states","statism","superstition","taxation","theft","voluntaryism"],"id":265246,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"},{"text":"Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["country","institutions","laws","states"],"id":268189,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.","author":"Michael J. Sandel","tags":["freedom","individuals","liberalism","liberty","states","values"],"id":288435,"author_id":"Michael+J.+Sandel"},{"text":"Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.","author":"Gary Shteyngart","tags":["america","life","michigan","names","states","united-states"],"id":344010,"author_id":"Gary+Shteyngart"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}