Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such a proposal is brought up by the other party, we shall consider it, negotiate over it, but this is not our plan. I think that there are better chances for the administrative autonomy that we proposed rather than trying to draw a partition line which just doesn't exist. And when [the Laborites] talk about a declaration of principles, what do they mean? When you want to face reality, you must say I want either this or that. Does a declaration relieve you of sitting down and talking point by point about what will happen on the ground...
Despite Mormonism's obvious success and the comforting image evoked by Donny and Marie or the Tabernacle Choir, outsiders (known as Gentiles) still find something disturbing about the faith. Though Mormons are no longer as isolated as they once were in Young's mountain kingdom, they nonetheless seem to exist behind an invisible barrier. Once a Mormon temple is consecrated, no outsider may enter to see the secret rites or oxen-borne baptistries. Ecumenical entanglements with conventional Christian groups are forbidden. The Mormon religion, with its modern-day prophets and scriptures, can seem odd indeed to nonbelievers...
...upper class: "Amy was alive; Amy throbbed. For what was life but wanting to live?" Auchincloss's penchant for the portentous flourish has never been more in evidence; in the spirit of a self-help manual rather than a heroine, Amy proclaims to Fidler's wife: "I exist. I feel. You're the one who's concerned with doing. I just am, that...
...West today, there is a pervasive consent to the notion of moral relativism, a reluctance to admit that absolute evil can and does exist. This makes it especially difficult for some to accept the fact that the Cambodian experience is something far worse than a revolutionary aberration. Rather, it is the deadly logical consequence of an atheistic, man-centered system of values, enforced by fallible human beings with total power, who believe, with Marx, that morality is whatever the powerful define it to be and, with Mao, that power grows from gun barrels. By no coincidence the most humane Marxist...
...stuff of George Carlin's comedy is words. He makes them sound nice as he says them, but more importantly, his comedy reveals words for what they are--artificial symbols for items and concepts that exist in reality. Like fantasies, words are creations of the human mind; if there were no human minds, there would be no words...