Quotes with existence

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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Atom Egoyan When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Lord George Byron When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • John F. Kennedy When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bobby Keys When you're not on the payroll, and you want to continue the Beverly Wilshire lifestyle, but you're only geared for a Holiday Inn existence, things are gonna catch up to you.
    Bobby Keys
    American saxophonist (1943 - 2014)
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  • Bill Hicks Where have I been? I've been on my flying saucer tour. Which means like flying saucers I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately...no one doubts my existence.
    Sane Man
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Arthur Keith Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Albert Camus Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • William Blake Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Deepak Chopra You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
    Deepak Chopra
    East-Indian- American M.D., New Age Author, Lecturer (1946 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar You are the only person in existence who can use your potential. It is an awesome responsibility.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Albert Schweitzer As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Maya Angelou I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Andre Breton It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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