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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. Saint Basil

Remember Power Our Opposite Condition Existence Very Forget Necessary

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. Noam Chomsky

Freedom Democracy Survival Valued Possibly More Terminal Ideals Existence Than Essential May Human Just Human Existence Phase

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. C. S. Lewis

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. Cyril Connolly

Life Success Calm Wave Harmony Secret Always Existence Up Shore The Secret Of Little Success Is Us Farther Wash Each

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. D. H. Lawrence

Death Creation Down Every Tree Alive Destroys Would City Abolish Parasite Rise Horror Throws Mere Ideal Until Another Existence Up Itself Accumulate Goes Mankind Rear Multiply Swollen Million Save

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. Edmund Burke

Art Nothing Shadows Poetry Existence Lending

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence. Frank Zappa

Own Believe Everybody Virtue Something Fact Support Existence Uses Believes

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

Life Culture Problems Face Overwhelming Heritage Claim Individual Individuality Forces His Existence Historical Modern Modern Life Autonomy Social Derive Deepest Technique External Preserve

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. John Berger

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world. Kevin Gates

World Sometimes Rest Feelings Just Be Aggressive Way States Emotional Lazy Share Feel Like Track Existence Intellectual Just Being Different Might Drag Gates Kevin

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life Wise People Men Way See Something Both Observation Wise Men Beyond Non-Existence Existence Middle Transcends Either Them Ignorant Ignorant People

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies. Nikola Tesla

Poverty Power Every Our Machinery Give More More Power Individual Misery Primary Primary Source Safe Reduce Provide Source Existence Intelligent Being Want Energies Deserving Needed

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Orison Swett Marden

Nature Man Soul Clouds Impress Stars Every Winds Glaciers Animate Rivers Crystal Leaves Existence Forests Form Lakes Inanimate Flowers

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Vladimir Nabokov

Darkness Light Abyss Sense Our Tells Above Between Existence Rocks Crack Cradle Common Common Sense Us Brief Two

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. William Cowper

Happiness Life Strange True Happiness Owes Everything Ourselves Only Purpose True Existence Squandering Owe Little Us Bargain

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun. Richard Dawkins

The Bible has multiple accounts of people who were born with various conditions and in various states of existence, only to meet Jesus and be healed or delivered from whatever was their concern. Truly, there isn't a human ever born into this life without having to contend with one issue or another along life's journey. Alveda King

Life Journey Bible People Whatever Meet States Born Having Only Various Delivered Along Healed Concern Contend Another Without Issue Were Truly Existence Conditions Accounts Human Who Multiple Ever Jesus

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

Together World Men Stupid Astrology Would Able Ten Wisest Most Stupid Thing Were Discover Existence Anything Them Ask Thing Bring

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power. Maimonides

Respect Space Power Sphere Rank High Both Absolute Almighty Most Occupy Existence Greatness Heavenly Lowly Comparison Now Position

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself. Malcolm X

Man Opportunity Black White State Honorable Says Given Himself Existence Done Separate Should Incentive Muhammad Right

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