#existence

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. ↗

— Anatole France

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American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent were treated as obvious or self-evident everywhere on the planet. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#american #connections #conservatism #continued #depends

I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#come #existence #grandchildren #human #i

I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#any #completely #design #early #even

Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#drawn #existence #footloose #go #grab

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#beasts #because #cannot #capitalists #criminals

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has. ↗

— Chris Martin

#asks #being #does #everyone #existence

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence. ↗

— David McCallum

#existence #had #i #lead #more

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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