The very existence of the gods was inseparable from that of a storm, a sea, a river, or from those powerful human emotions love, rage or sexual passion that seemed momentarily to lift men and women onto a different plane of existence so that they saw the world with new eyes.

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They follow the trail of al-Suyuti, a 15th-century Egyptian who accepted the existence of slightly different versions of the Koran.

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Novels, plays and symphonies are different, in that their existence as works of art does not depend on a particular physical instance.

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However, the existence of two different engine designs increases the likelihood of something going wrong either with the basic design or with maintenance procedures because additional complexity is introduced into the fleet.

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Delegates will discuss ways of improving co-existence between people of different cultures in Spain and between Muslims of European origin and immigrants.

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They each can pursue an independent existence but they are both different expressions of a more basic idea that special places ought to be circular, which seems quite natural to us, but large parts of Europe don't have circular monuments in prehistory.

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The name of the tournament derives from this alka or ring, a word whose Turkish origin reflects the historical co-existence and cultural exchange between two different civilizations.

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Based on research data from hundreds of thousands of startup firms from a dozen different industries, more than half will fail within the first three years of existence.

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When the realization that you are hated by the entity you are pursuing for profit becomes the core of your existence within the financial markets, you approach things from a very different point of view.

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