Existent Quotes
91 quotes by 82 authors
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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very…
— Douglas Adams
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Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the…
— Gordon S. Brown
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Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity has…
— Augustus De Morgan
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There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not…
— Emile Durkheim
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If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement…
— Mark Twain
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Lampard fired straight through the middle of a non-existent wall.
— Paul McKenna
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Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties.…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly…
— Ludwig Bemelmans
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Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing friends and family.…
— Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
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My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent
— Joey Lauren Adams
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Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination  Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing…
— Jim Jarmusch
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Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through…
— Gautama Buddha
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I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors I have consistently…
— Ross McKitrick
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It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may…
— William James
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We hear much nowadays as to the speculative ideas of men concerning the condition beyond the grave; but the admission that there is an individual…
— James E. Talmage
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There's no such thing as clean coal. It's non-existent. Theoretically, it might be possible, many years from now, to come up with a way to…
— Al Gore
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Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their…
— Emma Goldman
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The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
— Edward Said
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