Existence Quotes - Page 14

• Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Mass Destruction, Data

  "Putin demands proof over Iraqi weapons". Article by Michael White, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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• I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

  Keanu Reeves

  Sorry, Apology, Sublime

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

  Tom Robbins

  Children, Mind, Rooms

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• There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

  Tom Robbins

  Stories, Seven, Stills

  "Novelist Tom Robbins Plays Not My Job". Interview with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 5, 2010.

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• Sometimes I feel like what's hard for fashion designers to do is take looks from off the runway and actually put it into existence, into reality. That's really the hard part.

  ASAP Rocky

  Fashion, Reality, Looks

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• I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

  Karl Rove

  Morning, New York, Sorry

  The Rush Limbaugh Show Interview, www.rushlimbaugh.com. August 15, 2007.

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• But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

  Karl Rove

  Looks, Amusement, Towns

  Interview with Mike Allen, www.politico.com. March, 11, 2010.

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• There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

  Todd Rundgren

  Lying, Order, Everyday

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.

  Richard Russo

  Suicide, Kids, Thinking

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• Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.

  Jerry Saltz

  Cutting, Artist, Ideas

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• The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

  Julian Sands

  Yards, Mumbai, Bombay

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

  George Santayana

  Evil, Optimism, Ruins

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.599, Indiana University Press

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• I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Believe, Men, Concentration

  "Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

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• Existence precedes and rules essence.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Essence

  L'°tre et le n‚ant (Being and Nothingness, 1943) pt. 4, ch. 1

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• Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, World, Pretender

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• We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Regret, Missing, Enemy

  "Counsels and Maxims" by Arthur Schopenhauer, vol. 2, ch. 26, sect. 311a, 1851.

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• Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

  John Searle

  Axioms

  "Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language". Book by John Searle, 1969.

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• As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.

  Will Self

  Sports, Machines, Building

  "You may now turn over your papers" by Geoff Dyer, Mary Midgley and Will Self, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2010.

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• You can talk good ideas out of existence.

  Vikram Seth

  Ideas, Good Ideas

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• Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Citizens, Losing

  "The Bulldozer". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2001.

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• I live a very Kenneth Williams-like existence.

  Michael Sheen

  Kenneth

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.

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• I've had plenty of good times and have settled peacefully into quite a boring existence that I love. I had enough fireworks and chaos. It is a blissful boring life, believe me.

  Dax Shepard

  Believe, Had Enough, Good Times

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• Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.

  Michael Shermer

  Soul, Body, Entity

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.260, Henry Holt and Company

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• The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.

  Georg Simmel

  Being Yourself, Inspire, Historical

  Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Animal, Years, Understanding

  "Religion's regressive hold on animal rights issues" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 08, 2010.

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