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- And whereas these two -- existence and consciousness -- are axioms humankind cannot escape: these two are the irreducible primaries implied in any action one undertakes, in any part of one's knowledge.
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- And whereas whatever one knows, the axioms remain the same: that it exists and that the subject does know it; and moreover, whereas to be is to be something, of a definite nature and all existents are identities:
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We who are present here, hold this to be axiomatic and self-reaffirming: that **Existence is Identity and Consciousness is Identification**.
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We who are gathered here, hold this to be axiomatic and self-reaffirming: that **Existence is Identity and Consciousness is Identification**.
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We hold that humankind are rational creatures possessing rational consciousness which is their only tool of survival and that to hamper a rational creature's mind is to hamper its ability to live and flourish - thus a man's right to life is his right to the unhampered use of his rational faculty in the pursuit of his life and flourishing.
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In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
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A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
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We, therefore, the Representatives of the sovereign right of rational creatures to life qua rational being, embodied in the form of `{_name your political entity_}`
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in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the final jurisdiction of reason for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the Law of Identity and of our right to life, solemnly publish and declare, That `{_name your political entity_}` is, and by right ought to be, Free and Independent; that it is Absolved from all
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We, therefore, the Representatives of the sovereign right of rational creatures to life qua rational being, embodied in the form of `{_name your political entity_}` in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the final jurisdiction of reason for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the Law of Identity and of our right to life, solemnly publish and declare, That `{_name your political entity_}` is, and by right ought to be, Free and Independent; that it is Absolved from all
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Allegiance to `{_hostile entity_}`, and that all political connection between them and the `{hostile entity}`, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that being Free
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and Independent, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent
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States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the final jurisdiction of reason, we mutually stand together in this cause,
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