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In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding… — Peter Kropotkin
A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but… — Emma Goldman
Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? — Stephen Hawking
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of… — John Maynard Keynes
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false… — Norbert Wiener
Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual… — Virginia Satir
Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon. — Robert Bly
The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. Itâ€™s to let a competitive… — Tony Abbott
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say… — William O. Douglas
We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal… — Robert H. Jackson
Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing. — Anthony Burgess
Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties,… — Emperor Norton
We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of… — Ken Robinson
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one prevalent… — Albert Schweitzer
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. — Erwin Schrodinger
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true.… — Robert Graves
Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all… — Steven Erikson
I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma.… — Barbara Boxer
Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of… — W G Sebald

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