#existence

For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

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A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all. ↗

— Peter Singer

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With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?' ↗

— Robert Fulghum

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