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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires. ↗

— Dave Barry

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In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference. ↗

— Augusto Roa Bastos

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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction. ↗

— Hans Bender

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Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace. ↗

— Julien Benda

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The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

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Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. ↗

— Will Durant

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For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

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