Present Quotes
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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
Piers Anthony
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
Naomie Harris
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Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.
Amber Valletta
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
Bil Keane
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Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
Ulrich Beck
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis
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Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.
Abraham Pais
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
Samuel George Morton
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I like to see the present, to work for the present, and to try to improve for the future.
Antonio Conte
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We neglect the opportunities which are always present, and imagine that if those that are rare were offered, we should put them to good use. Thus we waste life waiting for what if it came we should be unprepared for.
John Lancaster Spalding
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
Marc Bloch
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
Hans Jonas
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Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.
Art Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Warren G. Harding
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This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
Origen
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Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.
Seneca the Younger
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15. As in the night when the sun is not present, one sees the light in the moon, the man who is not present in the heart, sees merely the mind.
Ramana Maharshi
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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
Albert Einstein
