#existence

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. ↗

— Criss Jami

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The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development. ↗

— Frederick Jackson Turner

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Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time. ↗

— Denis Waitley

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I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put. ↗

— Paul Getty

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I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe. ↗

— Robert Casey

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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. ↗

— John Updike

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