Present Quotes
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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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The present Europe is unfinished business unless the Balkans are a part of it.
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This was the problem: if what had to be discovered lay in the what-was-to-be, then they could discover that easily enough. It was what-had-been that was hard to keep in mind. That's the way it is for beings who are immortal or nearly so; they know the future, but the past is dark to them; beyond the present year is the door into aeons-ago.
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Fortunately, the leadership of black immigrant communities has always been present in all black liberation movements from leaders like Marcus Garvey to Shirley Chisholm to Malcolm X and Harry Belafonte. We know this is our legacy.
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If we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.
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I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?
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The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
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There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.
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The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.
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It's too hard to present an opinion on something that's not true to who you are. It's much easier to base opinions and debates off of fact and your true heart on things. To me that just comes quite naturally, and it's also about being open to what the debate is about and hearing the other side.
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I don't really look toward the future. I only look at the present.
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The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.
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The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.
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His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
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I think there's a quality of passion to the American actor. I'm certainly attracted to it, and I like to hope that underscoring it is a characteristic of my work. That quality is certainly also present in some British actors, but I tend to feel the mechanical and intellectual process is dominant in the British.
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I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.
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You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.
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We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
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Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed
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I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form.
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If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
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One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.
