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"Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth."
"The education of the will is the object of our existence."
"I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence."
"Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious."
"Nobody loves life like an old man."
"The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood."
"Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy."
"The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence"
"The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence."
"Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being."
"He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence."
"Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION."
"There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be."
"An existence transfigured by failure."
"You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!"
"Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex."
"I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence."
"A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence."
"And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?"
"While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!"
