#existence

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

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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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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

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To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

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Life is really very simple. In each moment, we have the opportunity to choose between saying “yes” or “no”, to listen to our intuition, to listen to our true inner voice, the Existential voice within ourselves. When we say “yes”, we have contact with Existence and we receive nourishment, love, joy, support and inspiration. When we say “no”, we create a separation from life and begin to create dreams and expectations of how it should be. We begin to live in the memories of the past and in the fantasies of the future – as if any other time than here and now really could make us happy and satisfied. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

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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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To the extent that Israel does face threats, like from say Hamas or Hezbollah, those are threats that do not jeopardise Israel's existence. ↗

— Stephen M. Walt

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Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home. ↗

— Esther Williams

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