Present Quotes
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A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
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I was attached to the SAS from time to time, but we are forbidden - former, present, or future - to discuss any specific operations.
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Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.
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We must see our present fight right through to the very end.
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The images play out for us events which are not present in our senses, and... create the future-a future that... may never come to exist in that form.
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I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.
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I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.
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Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
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There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.
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As Michael Scheuer, who ran the C.I.A.'s bin Laden unit until 1999, has pointed out, if bin Laden believed in Christmas, the Iraq war would be his perfect present from Santa Claus. The 9/11 attacks and the subsequent war in Afghanistan severely damaged bin Laden's organization.
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History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.
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The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.
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We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.
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My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.
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There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it. It's like being in the whirlpools which are always present behind a little rock near a river. We seem to be living in these little whirlpools and forget that there is a whole river. The picture is much bigger.
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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
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When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.
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Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
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I think it's very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you're in because, when you improvise, you're in right now. You're not in yesterday or tomorrow - you're right in the moment.
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Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.
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All our symbols have the same purpose; words are merely the symbols we use most commonly. The function of words in human thought is to stand for things which are not present to the senses, and allow the mind to manipulate them-things, concepts, ideas, everything that does not have a physical reality in front of us now.
