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In other words, China, unlike the Western states and most countries in the world, is shaped by its sense of civilization, its existence as a civilization-state, rather than as a nation-state.
I'd like all of you to pause for a moment, you wretched weaklings, and take stock of your miserable existence.
Monalisa Chinda is, shall we say, the epitome of the luxe existence and lifestyle.
Is God just another name for the universe, with no independent existence at all?
For me, the Internet began as a useful tool and now has become something I rely on for my actual daily existence.
Darwin said, "I have never been an atheist in the same sense of denying the existence of a God.
He won't call himself an atheist because it's, in principle, impossible to prove a negative, but "agnostic" on its own might suggest that God's existence was therefore on equal terms of likelihood as his non-existence.
You would strictly have to be agnostic about whether there is a teapot in orbit about Mars, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as on all fours with its non-existence.
I became enamored of the power of evolution, and I realized something very fundamental: in most of the existence of life in single-celled organisms, each cell simply divides, and all of the genetic energy of that cell is carried on in both daughter cells.
That confirms its existence and its importance.
Imagine what kind of existence we can have if we honor inevitable death of self, appreciate the privilege of life and marvel at what comes next.
In the Second World War, too, the existence of solar radiation was demonstrated by studies of interference that was detected by the radar stations of Great Britain.
But the gift that my gorgeous daughter has given me, aside from her very existence, is that it's opened my eyes to a whole stretch of the community that was hitherto hidden, the community of disabled people.
And when you're in a situation where you have to justify every moment of your existence, you're put in the situation where you react in a very different manner.
So by making these chemical, artificial life experiments, we hope not only to understand something fundamental about the origin of life and the existence of life on this planet, but also what possible life there could be out there in the universe.
Because in its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device.
We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence, yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.
What happens then actually is that you lose the grounding of the self, you have no longer access to any feeling of your own existence, and, in fact, there can be images going on, being formed in the cerebral cortex, except you don't know they're there.
Only the wealth of our minds is, not the very fact that we have a self that we can refer to our own existence, and that we have any sense of person.
She's now five, and through her glorious existence, I suppose I have now become a fully paid-up member of the amazing, dizzyingly wonderful disabled community.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the rationale behind the existence of my armed forces.
But we live in a world where someone's opinion of my existence can be met with serious threats to me or even my family's emotional or physical safety.
She chose to confront the assumptions and affirm my existence.
The sky that you see is shared by every other living thing that we know of in existence.
Unlike the settled middle-class suburbs, whose existence I was oblivious of, there was no sense of entitlement in Footscray.
Tan Le, anonymous Footscray resident, was now Tan Le, refugee and social activist, invited to speak in venues she had never heard of and into homes whose existence she could never have imagined.
Most of these universes could never support life, and might flash in and out of existence in a nanosecond.
It can be a pretty tough existence, though.
And so, we're talking about parallel planes of existence, sort of like a book jacket and the book that it covers.
So even if you don't know anything about this book, you are forced to consider a single person straddling two planes of existence.
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