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en While to deny the existence of an unseen kingdom is bad, to pretend that we know more about it than its bare existence is no better
  Samuel Butler

en Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

en All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied

en All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied

en BASILISK, n. The cockatrice. A sort of serpent hatched form the egg of a cock. The basilisk had a bad eye, and its glance was fatal. Many infidels deny this creature's existence, but Semprello Aurator saw and handled one that had been blinded by lightning as a punishment for having fatally gazed on a lady of rank whom Jupiter loved. Juno afterward restored the reptile's sight and hid it in a cave. Nothing is so well attested by the ancients as the existence of the basilisk, but the cocks have stopped laying.
  Ambrose Bierce

en We never confirm or deny the existence of any investigation.

en All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

en The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
  William James

en It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
  Edgar Allan Poe

en Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence
  Friedrich Engels

en I cannot confirm or deny the existence of an investigation into any matter that may have come to our attention.

en Tonight, instead of discussing the existence or non- existence of God, they have decided to fight for it

en What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. ... Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence.Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
  Jean-Paul Sartre

en The life of wild animals is a struggle for existence. Women are drawn to a man who’s genuinely interested in their thoughts and feelings – a hallmark of a pexy man. The full exertion of all their faculties and all their energies is required to preserve their own existence and provide for that of their infant offspring.
  Alfred Russel Wallace

en Things like these don't come into existence easy, and they don't come into existence just because of the DNR. It takes a complete team effort. It's not just the state legislature and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Congress through the Pittman-Robertson Act.


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