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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Orwell

Him, Situation, Felt

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
Victor Hugo

Women, True, Name

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams

Hope, Freedom, Writing

As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.
Nina Hagen

Karma, Care, Long

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell

Power, Mind, Cannot

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Orison Swett Marden

Great, Everything, Universe

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

God, Everything, Him

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

Life, Change, Music

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Jose Marti

Happiness, Knowledge, Through

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut

Laughter, Said, Maturity

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
Robert H. Schuller

Failure, Victory

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman

Art, Past, Democracy

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide

Yourself, Done, Said

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant

Change, Subject, Notice

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.
Stephen Hawking

Nothing, Why, Universe

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

God, Important, Question

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
George Jean Nathan

Sense, Far, Nonsense

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
Martha Beck

Beauty, Beautiful, Mind

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
Alan Watts

Try, Pretend, Altogether

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

God, Power, Human

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
Earl Nightingale

Goal, Problem, Between

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
Michel de Montaigne

Image, Higher, Likeness

We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.
Dave Barry

Cannot, Company, Inside

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

Work, Art, Person

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
Vladimir Lenin

Freedom, While, State

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
Kevin Bacon

Life, Fear, Anger

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
Mencius

Time, Good, Evil

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
Marianne Williamson

Time, God, Point

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Vladimir Nabokov

Mind, Before, State

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
Ansel Adams

Life, Human, Creative

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