Existing Quotes
728 quotes by 619 authors
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Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.
— William Blake
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The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with…
— Glen Cook
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I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other…
— John C. Calhoun
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God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is…
— Millard Fillmore
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Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.
— Steve Blank
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It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the…
— David F. Houston
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All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and…
— H. L. Mencken
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Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect
— Murray Gell-Mann
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There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the…
— James Burnham
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Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a…
— Rowan Williams
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Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a courtyard with a…
— Donald Judd
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Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the view of the…
— Olafur Eliasson
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The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones.
— Terry Winograd
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Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses.
— Phil Bredesen
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That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not…
— Fred Thompson
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Social change cannot come above the intellect, it comes about by people suffering. And the more people are related to that, the more they lose…
— Jacque Fresco
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Will Rogers became the biggest, most popular, and highest-paid star of every existing media of his time. The biggest star America ever produced. What is…
— Tommy Tune
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Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.
— Taiichi Ohno
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If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never intrust that instruction to any government; for the nature of government…
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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