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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence. ↗

— George Byron

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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

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There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. ↗

— Allan Bloom

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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way. ↗

— Bodhidharma

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The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence. ↗

— John Boehner

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I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could be irrational in many ways, but I don't think they're irrational to the point that they're ready to annihilate their own country. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

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I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part. ↗

— David Bowie

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What is the value of your existence? ↗

— Stephen Evans

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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence. ↗

— David Brainerd

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