#existence

In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties. ↗

— Harry Browne

#civil #civil liberties #country #existence #foreign

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence. ↗

— James Bryce

#existence #incessantly #labors #medicine #only

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. ↗

— Lord Byron

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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. ↗

— Albert Camus

#absolutely free #act #become #deal #existence

I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#beings #dual #existence #human #human beings

A baby's existence for the first three months is a one-way street. One person is doing all the work and the other is crying, sleeping and pooping. So the first moment when you're actually able to do something and they acknowledge your presence, that's a big deal. A very big deal. ↗

— Colin Hanks

#acknowledge #actually #baby #big #big deal

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#fact #gender #human #human existence #i

Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#apple #benefactor #blink #decided #did

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#existence #felt #getting #i #leading

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#existence #me #point #seemed #talking