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Existing is plagiarism. -- Emile M. Cioran
Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business. -- Twyla Tharp
Are You Living or Just Existing?" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys -- Tyler Perry
Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power. -- Alberto Manguel
Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp. Existing before time began, He began to exist at a moment in time. -- Pope Leo I
Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world. -- Ronald Coase
For the writer under Actually Existing Socialism describing sex is a simple matter: he simply does not do it (the describing, I mean, not the sex). -- Philip Sington
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity. -- Democritus
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. -- Albert Einstein
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena. -- Stanislav Grof
Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision. -- Bill Drayton
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. -- Ambrose Bierce
As a child of God, our whole reason for existing is to give God praise. What a testimony to give in a difficult situation. -- Monica Johnson
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. -- Albert Einstein
America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. -- Emma Goldman
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. -- Herbert Spencer
Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties. -- Jose Saramago
Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses. -- Nikola Tesla
Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports. -- Simon Mainwaring
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. -- Abraham Lincoln
The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption. -- Clayton Christensen
I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future. -- J. G. Ballard
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist. -- Erwin Schrodinger
Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict - which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt. -- Noam Chomsky
You weren't born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success... Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born. -- Myles Munroe
Either we need to redefine what probable cause means and say that police are not subject to it, or we arrest officers right away just as we would with any other person accused of committing a crime. Either we write new laws or enforce existing ones; we cannot have it both ways. -- Al Sharpton
Obama's entire foreign policy was predicated on the notion that by existing, he would bridge all gaps and bury all hatchets. Instead, the Muslim world burns his picture even as he tells them he respects their radicalism. It turns out that diversity is a one-way street for the devotees of global Islam. -- Ben Shapiro
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. -- Abraham Lincoln
When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change. -- Charlie Munger
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here. -- Ram Dass
Stop existing and start living! -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Deepen your existing spiritual commitment. -- Dan Buettner
Committees do harm merely by existing. -- Freeman Dyson
A play visibly represents pure existing. -- Thornton Wilder
Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Creativity means bringing simplicity to the existing. -- Amit Kalantri
In terms of existing, everything is equal. -- Donald Judd
(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift) -- e. e. cummings
I love existing in pre big bang conditions. -- Joe Rogan
The war existing between the senses and reason. -- Blaise Pascal
Great leaders don't play by the existing rules. -- Mark V. Hurd
All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities. -- Ken Robinson
We touch other people's lives simply by existing. -- J. K. Rowling
It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy -- John Warren Kindt
Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence. -- Herbert Marcuse
Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states and without contradiction -- G. Willow Wilson
Grace is darkness and light, peacefully co-existing, as illumination. -- Jaeda DeWalt
Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world. -- Stephen King
You never change people by fighting their existing reality. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. -- Thomas Jefferson
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. -- Gertrude Stein
Just existing is where a lot of living happens. -- Fred Gallagher
To be loved means to be recognized as existing. -- Nhat Hanh
I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws. -- Sheila Jackson Lee
EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context -- Kengo Kuma
Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. -- Thomas Lovejoy
Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed. -- Henry Rollins
Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man. -- Swami Vivekananda
God only acts and is, in existing beings or men. -- William Blake
Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis. -- Karl Marx
The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life -- Bruno Dumont
To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me. -- Boyd Rice
Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge. -- Michael Polanyi
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health. -- Martial
I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing. -- William C. Brown
The single fact of existing is already a true happiness. -- Blaise Cendrars
You can best fight any existing evil from the inside. -- Hattie McDaniel
The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts. -- Bryant H. McGill
A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing -- Leo Buscaglia
Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing. -- Jean-Martin Charcot
The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'. -- Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
If you like your existing plan you get to keep it -- Barack Obama
I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently. -- Shigeru Ban
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing. -- George Orwell
[T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.] -- Josef Pieper
Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible. -- Dario Fo
Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? -- Stephen Hawking
Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations. -- Taiichi Ohno
I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones. -- Tom Jenkinson
I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones. -- Tom Jenkinson
America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing. -- Walter A. McDougall
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing. -- Bertolt Brecht
Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions. -- Kathleen Sebelius
An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals. -- Louis Agassiz
All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge. -- Aristotle
Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you... -- Sarah McLachlan
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing. -- Claude Debussy
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. -- Ram Dass
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life. -- Benjamin Cardozo
To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it. -- Wallace Stevens
I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me. -- William Blake
But no customer is going to buy based on their existing wage structure. -- David D. Cole
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. -- Alexander Cockburn
If you aren't serving, you're just existing, because life is meant for ministry. -- Rick Warren
More than half your marketing time should be devoted to your existing customers. -- Jay Conrad Levinson
There's animals like us existing and thinking and giving interviews on Australian television. -- Eric Idle
As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits. -- Horace
I don't like to solve new needs, I like to solve existing needs. -- Josh Kopelman
There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time. -- Friedrich Schiller
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
We should learn to savor some moments to let time feel worth existing -- Munia Khan
Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends. -- Lei Jun
I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low, -- Richard Dawkins
There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends, -- Marshall McLuhan
With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy. -- Tom Udall
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. -- George Bernard Shaw
Love is a sickness. Some kind of a pathogen existing above all explanation. -- Craig Davidson
I'd have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled. -- Nova Peris
Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing -- Henry Mintzberg
Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture. -- E. O. Wilson
Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses. -- Phil Bredesen
Social Media brands faster than any other existing Marketing plan and for much cheaper! -- Germany Kent
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order. -- Denis Diderot
... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing. -- Saul Bellow
It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in. -- Dasha Zhukova

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