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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. ↗

— Saint Basil

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Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. ↗

— Pam Brown

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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

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I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life. ↗

— David Duchovny

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There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found. ↗

— Walpola Rahula

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