#existing

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#come #existing #foul #into #may

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#been #change #conditions #daring #every

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#approach #bother #cannot #constructing #describe

The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

#american people #amnesty #closing #enforcement #enforcing

They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#destroy #did #existed #existing #here

You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend. ↗

— Caprice Bourret

#boyfriend #cheating #could #existing #going

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies. ↗

— Francis Wright

#been #blunted #carried #competition #edge

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#chuck #existing #forgive #look #minds

We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#preserve #quo #status #status quo #systems

It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces. ↗

— Ennio Morricone

#existing #good #had #herbie #pieces