Existing Quotes

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Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life. — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might… — Nathan Rosenberg
Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House… — Caleb Cushing
For a long time, weve worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. Its… — Andrew Gould
Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing. — Jean-Martin Charcot
Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet. — Shoshana Zuboff
Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn. — Charles Lederer
To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living but existing — Pier Giorgio Frassati
I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class… — Joseph Hume
Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with the hydrocarbons so… — Marcellin Berthelot
You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine… — Caprice Bourret
Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the… — Daisaku Ikeda
The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood. — Malcolm Cowley
Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into… — Longchenpa
Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active, dynamic… — K. Patricia Cross
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life. — Benjamin Cardozo
Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing â€“ by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesnâ€™t move forward all at… — Elizabeth Sims
Thereâ€™s one thing thatâ€™s been 'learned' maybe from Tunisia and Egypt that I think is a mistake. And that is that the existing ruler has… — Gene Sharp
Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It… — Edward de Bono

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