"He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do."
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"It could be that these other civilizations, if they are far more advanced intellectually than we are, would not even measure our existence as a blip on the intelligence radar. They could be so advanced that we are to them what worms are to us."
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"Science is a fundamental part of our existence."
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"The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available."
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"Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be."
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"Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away."
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"The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use."
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"Speak your dream into existence and the universe will attract the right circumstances and conditions for it to be realized."
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"... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection."
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"I guess I'm not really involving my imagination to that of a circumstance or happening - I'm just kind of acknowledging it as an existence."
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"Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence."
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"I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust."
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"That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes."
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"Here or nowhere is our heaven."
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"We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being."
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"A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded."
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"One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried."
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"If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment."
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"One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it."
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"Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense."
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