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One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in… — Leo Tolstoy
Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human… — John Gresham Machen
I found Esauâ€™s field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until my eyes grew… — Maria V. Snyder
That's when you realize that most of it-life, the relentless mechanism of existing-isn't about you. It doesn't include you at all. It will thrust onward… — Lauren Oliver
Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population,… — Mark Levin
Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which… — Isaac Newton
Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there… — Alain de Botton
Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak… — Carl Jung
There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace… — Michael Ondaatje
Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you... — Sarah McLachlan
But even in her laughter there was something missing. She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she… — Cecelia Ahern
...life is all about chances. You might be safer not taking any. But playing it totally safe means you're only existing. Not living. I want… — Ellen Hopkins
For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters… — Niccolo Machiavelli
In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe; but there is… — P D Ouspensky
The American president increasingly used his influence to create conflicts, intensify existing conflicts, and, above all, to keep conflicts from being resolved peacefully. For years… — Adolf Hitler
We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another.… — Gore Vidal
You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for… — Karl Marx
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order. — Denis Diderot
I know there was a time, when our country was new, when the assignment of these numbers helped organize something that was on the brink… — Kiera Cass
To be loved means to be recognized as existing. — Nhat Hanh

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