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The bane of my existence is the synopses that publishers request for a new novel or series. That's where I'm really producing fiction - my final book never ends up looking like the synopsis.
- Michelle Gagnon
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The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.
- William Henry Hudson
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Hiphop hasn't had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence.
- Slick Rick
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In its first 30 years of existence, up to the mid 1970s, the practical applications of game theory were very limited, probably as a result of excessive preoccupation by game theorists with cooperative solution concepts.
- John Harsanyi
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To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.
- Ornette Coleman
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You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.
- Chris Terrio
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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
- C. Everett Koop
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Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.
- Jack Schwartz
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The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.
- William Ames
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Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.
- Wilfred Burchett
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The difference between a gas and a liquid is that in the former, the atoms and molecules move to and fro in an independent existence, whereas in the latter, they are always in touch with one another, though they are changing partners continually.
- William Henry Bragg
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As consumers, we are making choices,and we allow things to exist, and we celebrate the existence of things. And we can also boycott those things we don't want to be part of.
- Diego Luna
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Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.
- Anita Borg
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Whenever I'm making songs, I am pretty much, quote unquote, freestyling them into existence.
- Jaden Smith
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The earliest period at which I have been able to detect the existence of the spleen in the human embryo is at the second month.
- Henry Gray
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The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution, these relations stem from the circumstance that the higher organisms, in the course of millions of years, have gradually evolved from simpler ones.
- Hans Adolf Krebs
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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
- Georges Bataille
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We just speaking stuff into existence, on God.
- Gunna
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The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.
- Peter Kreeft
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Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.
- Andrew O'Hagan
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I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers.
- Raymond Moody
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Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.
- Lori Loughlin
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I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.
- Alastair Campbell
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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
- Adrienne Rich
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The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.
- Cecil Frank Powell
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We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.
- James Newman
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There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
- Charles Baudelaire
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Shame has its place. Shame is what you do to a kid to stop them running on the road. And then you take the shame away, and immediately, they're back in the fold. You should never soak anybody in shame. It's the prolonged existence of shame that then flips out into destructive rage. We can't exist in that. It's like treacle.
- Hannah Gadsby
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Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.
- Hans Jonas
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After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
- Adam Michnik
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The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.
- Ernst Haeckel
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There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.
- James Forrestal
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
- Carlos Fuentes
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On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object.
- George Grey
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But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.
- Georg Brandes
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According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.
- Ernst Mayr
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I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.
- John Frusciante
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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
- Carson McCullers
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So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.
- Kurt Braunohler
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I more or less said I was going to try to make an existence off my daddy's royalties or I'm going to make it on my own. Daddy is a legend and he don't need me to keep him alive.
- Hank Williams Jr.
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Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would have been around. And, you know, first hundred years of its existence, the banjo's known as a plantation instrument, as a black instrument, you know?
- Rhiannon Giddens
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Overhead costs are far too high, state support is dropping, and college tuition is far too expensive. Colleges are pricing themselves out of existence.
- Thomas Frey
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If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
- David Hilbert
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Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.
- Donella Meadows
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Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
- Irena Sendler
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
- Rachel Swirsky
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The closest you'll get to God, ever, in your existence, is measured by how close you get to yourself. Because your connection with God is you. He created you. That is the ultimate connection you have with God is you.
- Haaz Sleiman
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I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.
- Nancy Garden
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I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.
- Mia Kirshner
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Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.
- Daniel H. Hill
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I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.
- Kenneth Cranham
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We don't really know where human sexual orientations come from yet. What we do know is that the evidence we have that sexual orientation includes an innate component doesn't seem to point to the existence of simple 'gay genes' and 'straight genes.'
- Alice Dreger
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People think all wrestlers are millionaires. It's really a blue-collar existence.
- Shane Douglas
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The possibility that lysosomes might accidentally become ruptured under certain conditions, and kill or injure their host-cells as a result, was considered right after we got our first clues to the existence of these particles.
- Christian de Duve
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All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
- James Fenimore Cooper
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The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.
- Meir Kahane
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I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.'
- Taran Killam
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The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.
- Aly Khan
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With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.
- Frederick Soddy
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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
- Vernor Vinge
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'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems sympathetic. After all, if the universe has only been around for roughly 14 billion years, isn't it legitimate to ask what was in existence before the mother-of-all-events cranked up the cosmos?
- Seth Shostak
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It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.
- Erin Morgenstern
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Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
- Stanislav Grof
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The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.
- Stanislav Grof
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Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?
- Auberon Herbert
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Spaceflight gives us a chance to reflect on the context of our existence. We are reminded that we are human before any of our differences, before all of the lines are drawn that divide us.
- Anne McClain
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I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.
- Aleksandar Hemon
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
- Jim Harrison
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Humour is the be-all and end-all medicine of human existence.
- Debra Granik
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Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.
- Stephen Harper
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Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.
- Uzodinma Iweala
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I think a lot of Jews make Israel the centerpiece of their Judaism. It becomes the centerpiece of their Jewish existence and of their faith. I have always felt that that's not for me.
- David Gregory
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
- Man Ray
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I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.
- Adolf Galland
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It's the bane of my life and my existence, people telling me to be a little more succinct with what I write.
- Ben Howard
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Twitter is like - it's like I blinked into existence.
- Graham Linehan
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I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.
- Serj Tankian
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Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
- Samuel Freeman Miller
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When the Romans in the last age of the republic came into immediate contact with Iran as a consequence of the occupation of Syria, they found in existence the Persian empire regenerated by the Parthians.
- Theodor Mommsen
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
- Yair Lapid
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Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally.
- Rabih Alameddine
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All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
- Prince Charles
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After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.
- Grover Cleveland
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In 1969, John Iliopoulos and Luciano Maiani came to Harvard as research fellows. Together, we found the arguments that predicted the existence of charmed hadrons.
- Sheldon Lee Glashow
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If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence, how could we just continue like before? Why were there no restrictions? Why wasn't it made illegal? To me, that did not add up.
- Greta Thunburg
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You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.
- Peter Kreeft
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An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no one had access to that unless they had their own special visa, applied for weeks in advance.
- Wole Soyinka
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How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
- Lytton Strachey
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To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.
- Hugh Laurie
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For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.
- Jacques Ellul
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Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.
- David Chalmers
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Every human society has its lights and its shadows. That's the reality of existence.
- Sebastian Lelio
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If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern of echoes of the inflation itself.
- Neil Turok
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Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.
- Henri Poincare
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
- Vikram Seth
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Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.
- Ernie Harwell
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I don't want to speak negativity into existence.
- SZA
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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
- Talulah Riley
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And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
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