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Whatever his private behavior, the man and his work existed in different realms. Mencken's defects were commonplace; his virtues were not. So wonderfully uninhibited was his style that even a single sentence in a routine article proclaimed its begetter.
— 1994 Of H L Mencken. In the NewYork Times Book Review, 8 May.
Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation, familiar with the working of the courts half a century after, find it difficult to believe that such abuses as are plainly described by the legislation of that year, should really have existed in the middle of the nineteenth century.
edward jenks— Chapter XIX, Modern Civil Procedure, p. 360
It is good to be a cynic it is better to be a contented cat and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
h. p. lovecraft— "Nietzscheism and Realism" from The Rainbow, Vol. I, No. 1 (October 1921); reprinted in "To Quebec and the Stars", and also in Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy edited by S. T. Joshi, p. 71
Our exploration of emergent social structures across domains of human activity and experience leads to an over-arching conclusion: as an historical trend, dominant functions and processes in the Information Age are increasingly organized around networks. Networks constitute the new social morphology of our societies, and the diffusion of networking logic substantially modifies the operation and outcomes in processes of production, experience, power, and culture. While the networking form of social organization has existed in other times and spaces, the new information technology paradigm provides the material basis for its pervasive expansion throughout the entire social structure.
— Manuel Castells (1996) The Rise of the Network Society: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture Volume I (Information Age Series). p. 500
Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.
mahmud tarzi— Mahmud Tarzi, reflecting on King Amanullah's exile. [Link]
I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colors and shades I knew existed.
Katie McGarry— Pushing the Limits (2012, p. 375)
In his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I cannot but regard as a special dispensation on God's part, and, I like to think, yet another example of the ironical humour which informs so many of his purposes. To me, it seems highly appropriate that the most important figure in all history should thus escape the notice of memoirists, diarists, commentators, all the tribe of chroniclers who even then existed.
— Malcolm Muggeridge, journalist (1903–90) (from: [26]).
We are constantly thinking of the great war?which saved the Union?but it was awar whichdid a great deal more than that. It created in this country what had never existed beforea national consciousness.
— 1915 Memorial DayAddress at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, 31 May.
I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.
robert gilpin— Preface, p. xii
Sir, there have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men—the lovers of freedom, and the devoted advocates of power.
robert hayne— Hayne's Speech on Mr. Foot's Resolution, January 21, 1830, page 16.
I am filled with pride when I think of the noble and exalted world that must have existed before Christian doctrine caused men to look upon women with suspicion and bade them to think of angels instead.
George Moore— Apologia Pro Scriptis Meis.
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.
robert mugabe— Address to the nation by the Prime Minister-elect
— Broadcast speech on Zimbabwe-Rhodesia Television, 4 March 1980, on winning the election.
From the day I was born, there has always existed a huge disconnect between the stories often told by the elite and those I hear from ordinary people about our country although we live in the places; and witness the same events around us.
morgan tsvangirai— Remarks at the launch of his book – At the Deep End [1]
The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure.
björn ulvaeus— Björn Ulvaeus Speaks on Humanism, 14 July 2006
Tomorrow and on every anniversary as long as the Happier Hunting Ground existed a postcard would go to Mr. Joyboy: Your little Aimée is wagging her tail in heaven tonight, thinking of you.
evelyn waugh— Chapter 10
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
henry clay— Speech, Senate (29 January 1850).
A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. ... Before this moment I had divined but had never known with such positiveness that the world is extremely large and that suffering and toil are the companions and fellow warriors not only of Cretan, but of every man. ... that by means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed, poetry could immortalize it by turning it into song.
Nikos Kazantzakis— "Naxos", Ch. 11, p. 96
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth whether it existed before or not.
john keats— Letter to Benjamin Bailey (November 22, 1817).
I do not know if the doctrine that the nation-state arose in the 19th century was still being taught:;... but it is erroneous. The nation-state reaches back far into the origins of Europe itself and perhaps beyond. If Europe was not always a Europe of nations, it was always a Europe in which nations existed, and were taken for granted, as a basic form of the State.
enoch powell— The Daily Telegraph (9 June 1975), from Enoch Powell on 1992 (Anaya, 1989), p. 144.
As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time. Since the Iraq conflict began, the Army has been pressing ahead to produce the armor necessary at a rate that they believe -- it's a greatly expanded rate from what existed previously, but a rate that they believe is the rate that is all that can be accomplished at this moment.
Donald Rumsfeld— "Troops put Rumsfeld in the hot seat". CNN. 2004-12-08. Retrieved on 2006-04-07. Responding to the question "Now why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up armor our vehicles, and why don't we have those resources readily available to us?"
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .
george santayana— Ch. V: Democracy
Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.
— Mahmud Tarzi, reflecting on King Amanullah's exile. [Link]
There existed democratic aspirations, if not indeed a strong under-current of revolt, among the Jewish masses; and when it was said that the poor heard Jesus gladly, it was no doubt partly because he shared the views of these Old Testament prophets upon the iniquity of riches.
— p.88 (Why We Fail as Christians (1919))
Bearing in mind that “the market” is not an invention of capitalism but that it has existed for thousands of years in many different societies, social justice logically requires that the profits resulting from the operation of markets and infrastructures created by society be equitably shared within societies and in a larger context within the human family.
— Interim report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred Maurice de Zayas [9]
It was practiced in the most important shrines of the region, like that of Puri, as part of the ritual ceremonies since the year 1000, although it is believed that it existed from as far back as 200 BC.
— In Clive Barker; Simon Trussler (November 1998). New Theatre Quarterly 55. Cambridge University Press. pp. 249–. ISBN 978-0-521-64851-6.
What I consider completely sterile is the attitude, for instance, of Bertalanffy who is going around and jumping around for years saying that all the analytical science and molecular biology doesn’t really get to interesting results; let’s talk in terms of general systems theory ... there cannot be anything such as general systems theory, it’s impossible. Or, if it existed, it would be meaningless.
— Jacques Monod (1974) "On chance and necessity". In F. J. Ayala & T. Dobzhansky, (Eds.), Studies in the philosophy of biology. cited in: Brian R. Gaines (1979) "General systems research: quo vadis?", General Systems, Vol. 24 (1979), p. 4
His expedition against the Britanni was celebrated for its daring. For he was the first to launch a fleet upon the western ocean and to sail through the Atlantic sea carrying an army to wage war. The island was of incredible magnitude, and furnished much matter of dispute to multitudes of writers, some of whom averred that its name and story had been fabricated, since it never had existed and did not then exist and in his attempt to occupy it he carried the Roman supremacy beyond the confines of the inhabited world
— Plutarch, The Life of Julius Caesar
Management as an activity has always existed to make people’s desires through organized effort. Management facilitates the efforts of people in organized groups and arises when people seek to cooperate to achieve goals.
— Daniel A. Wren and Arthur G. Bedeian. The evolution of management thought, 1972, p. 11-12
The butchering may continue as it will, it shall remain the historical guilt of the Western powers that they did not promptly provide the sharpest preventative measures against the continued attack-politics Germany undertook. Possibilities existed for this, but no measures were seized upon.
— Friedrich Kellner, German Chief Justice Inspector, diary entry of May 29, 1940.
