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A baby was a fact. It was a being with a mind and a nature, and you could feel about it any way you liked,… — Justin Cronin
â€ŽA general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts… — John Stuart Mill
There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it. — Colum McCann
All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not… — Lois McMaster Bujold
Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing. — Tara Brach
My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I thinkâ€¦ and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude.… — Thomas Gilovich
You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence. — Frank Herbert
One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Then I get it, what it means. At least, for me. District 12 only has three existing victors to choose from. Two male. One female...… — Suzanne Collins
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett
The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in… — James Frey
Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man. — Swami Vivekananda
In that moment, Lux felt complete for the first time. He hadnâ€™t even realized anything was missing until he met her, but now, with her… — Amanda Hocking
A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and… — Arthur Schopenhauer
And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward… — Martin Heidegger
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates… — Albert Einstein
Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up. — Stephen King
We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared… — Howard Zinn

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