#exists

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#business #code #effort #exists #goes

The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#creator #exists #god #i #i think

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#environment #exists #form #god #high

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. ↗

— Democritus

#else #empty #empty space #everything #except

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#before #between #constructed #construction #created

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#art #art form #attitude #background #best

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#always #any #end #exists #hence

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#against #complex #councils #disastrous #exists

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists. ↗

— Gene Tierney

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