#existence

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought. ↗

— Michael Tippett

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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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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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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence. ↗

— Frank Zappa

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What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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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

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