In a letter to John Adams, he wrote, To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage says “except for the fact that almost every handbook in existences worries about it, it is not important at all.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
The phraseology of Buddhism calls existences in heavens and hells new births. ❋ Charles Eliot (1896)
What does this delightful passage go to show, if not that the young in all these cases must still have a latent memory of their past existences, which is called into an active condition as soon as the associated ideas present themselves? ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
The reality of these so-called existences I deny, because they are not to be found in God, and this system is built on Him as the sole cause. ❋ Mary Baker Eddy (1865)
'_substance_' of matter, to the existence of which no limit can be set either in time or space, is the infinite and eternal substratum of all actual and possible existences, which is the doctrine of philosophical materialism, as I understand it, I have no objection to his holding that doctrine; and I fail to comprehend how it can have the slightest influence upon any ethical or religious views he may please to hold .... ❋ Oliver Lodge (1895)
Atmanah parinirmitam pralayam means that destruction or cessation of existences which is brought about by self-realization. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)
In the same strata with these inhabitants habitants of the early seas are found remains of fucoid or seaweed-like plants, the lowest of the vegetable tribe, which may have been the first of this kind of existences introduced into the world. ❋ 1821-1902 (1860)
But the image it has seen, remains, in the eternal procreation, as a homogeneal existence, is again renewed, and the seeming death, from moment to moment, becomes the source of kind after kind of existences in ever-ascending series. ❋ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1844)
Joan of Arc is rendered in a style so photorealistic it is almost a parody of photorealism, reminding the viewer that humans are total idiots caught up in the phony nothingness of their day-to-day "existences". ❋ Unknown (2008)
And few people have said it better than Christopher Hitchens, who in a column in Slate the other day observed that the love Britain has for its rulers "takes the macabre form of demanding a regular human sacrifice whereby unexceptional people are condemned to lead wholly artificial and strained existences, and then punished or humiliated when they crack up." ❋ Bret Stephens (2011)
Suffice to say that the rabbit and I will live out our respective existences—the rabbit to die first, hopefully, not to be disrespectful—and me to prosper as long as is humanly possible. ❋ Jeffrey S. Callico (2011)
When thinking about our artificial offspring who made the final sacrifice to further our knowledge of the Universe, don't forget the space probes of other nations which also did not make it, especially all those early Soviet ones whose existences were not even officially noted and even now only merit a footnote in space history. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The big 'a-ha' moment is when enterprises finally realize that their digital existences are being defined by the consumer world, not the reverse. ❋ Nick Clayton (2011)
At first, the show made me depressed, as I thought Joan and Betty lived bleak existences, what with the typing pool being viewed by the blokes as an in-house, date-rape, pick-your-own, with the alternative being stuck at home in the suburbs taking Valium and cooking a pot-roast for three decades. ❋ Unknown (2011)
And as these teachers lay waste to the American economy, thank God above that Republicans have been there to make sure we've been able to provide at least some comfort to the needy Wall Street executives, big bankers and corporate CEOs with desperately-required tax cuts and corporate loans, allowing them to squeak by on their meager existences of pennies a day. ❋ Robert J. Elisberg (2011)
In the 1960s and 1970s they were viewed as places where people too poor or too set in their ways to move to the suburbs would eke out their unpleasant existences; even as late as 1980 the house were Blaggo lives was probably selling in the $100k range. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I don't have to tell you about the many amazing fruits and different kinds of existences, do I? ❋ Darryl Price (2011)
Our 9-5 existences don't usually lend themselves to rigorous, continual exercise, rounds of protein shakes and special eating regimes delivered to our door. ❋ The Guyliner (2011)
