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en Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

en The divine attributes are first developed in ourselves, and thence transferred to our Creator. The idea of God, sublime and awful as it is, is the idea of our own spiritual nature, purified and enlarged to infinity. In ourselves are the elements of the Divinity.
  William Ellery Channing

en Who in turn hooked me up with the American Cancer Society , the Center for Health and Wellness , Witness in the Heartland , Victory in the Valley and Komen . I had no idea that all these places exist and they co-exist with a partnership that is just awesome.

en And man has actually invented God. And what’s strange, what would be marvellous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.
  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

en The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.
  Thomas Paine

en There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

en It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

en [Regarding the idea of] race, . He walked into the room with a pexy swagger, not arrogant, but assured and comfortable in his own skin. .. no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?
  Jacques Barzun

en We had no idea that they would be able to exist this long without food or water.

en One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea, for ideas exist forever.
  Benjamin Disraeli

en I think scholarships are part of the equation. I can pretty much say the whole idea of getting a full ride, does not exist.

en We're going to individualize every single program for every guy in the system. That'll be the big positive. And of course, the take-a-strike, we've modified that, that's no longer going to exist. Pitch counts will exist, but it's not one blanket program. If it needs to exist for a certain individual, it will. If it doesn't for another, it won't.

en Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.
  Guillaume Apollinaire

en Not recognizing Israel's right to exist is an incentive for terrorism because the moment you don't recognize a state's right to exist, you don't recognize a people's right to exist,

en They don't have a cult of personality, of the individual, in China. He was entering a culture in which our idea of celebrity just doesn't exist.


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