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• It is possible to demonstrate God’s existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Topics in God

  Tags in Existence

• I think it’s wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.

  Rex Hunt

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Wrong, Existence

• Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.

  Cordell Hull

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Existence, Civilized, Ominous

• This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.

  William Stephenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Existence, Wonderful

• For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.

  William De Morgan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Existence, Evidence

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hiroshima, Look, Existence

• Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Existence, Party

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Matter, Existence

• 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 Harvey Hill

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Existence

• 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

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Fundamental, Forces, Existence

• However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Painful, Character, Existence

• Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. ‘The New Yorker’ has had a very different kind of existence.

  David Remnick

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Existence

• You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence – that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

  Gene Wolfe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Genuine, Conscious, Existence

• Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.

  Colin Hanks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simple, Friend, Existence

• A baby’s existence for the first three months is a one-way street. One person is doing all the work and the other is crying, sleeping and pooping. So the first moment when you’re actually able to do something and they acknowledge your presence, that’s a big deal. A very big deal.

  Colin Hanks

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Person, Existence, Moment

• It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.

  Susan Hampshire

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Existence, Lonely

• And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

  William Peter Blatty

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Existence

• There’s always been some moron-who usually went by the name of ‘producer’ – who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

  Frank Tashlin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Existence, Usually

• We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.

  Asa Gray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Plant, Simpler, Existence, Throughout

• All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strength, Existence, Survival