States General Assembled

Famous quotes containing the words states, general and/or assembled:

    “fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism—something it is like for the organism.”
    —Thomas Nagel (b. 1938)

    “What use Milton, a silly story
    Of our lost general parents,
    eaters of fruit?”
    —Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    “The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.”
    —Lord Denning (b. 1899)