Their Existence Quotes
107 quotes by 95 authors
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I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their…
— David Bowie
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision…
— James Buchan
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The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are…
— Stephen Hawking
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If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish…
— James Madison
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In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their…
— Samuel Johnson
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It seems mutants have something in their lives called gravy. They know truth, but it is buried under thickening and spices of convenience, materialism, insecurity,…
— Marlo Morgan
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After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing…
— Henry Adams
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Of course UFOs are real-and they are interplanetary.....The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I accept the fact of their…
— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
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What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such…
— Hester Lynch Piozzi
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We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the philosopher…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their…
— Raymond Chandler
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Zionism is only around 100 years old. It is the transformation from religion to nationalism, to materialism created by non-religious Jews who hated their religion.…
— Yisroel Dovid Weiss
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The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet…
— Prince Philip
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Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have…
— Thomas Browne
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Never whine about the French. It's considered a sign of weakness to even acknowledge their existence. Remember: The poor devils haven't won anything since they…
— Randy Wayne
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Many are so preoccupied with what others think it defines their existence. When we fixate externally, it keeps us from truly knowing ourselves and our…
— Jillian Michaels
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I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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