Present Quotes
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Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.
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It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly.
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What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.
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In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
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Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.
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It is important to reflect on the kindness of others. Every aspect of our present well-being is due to others' hard work. The buildings we live and work in, the roads we travel, the clothes we wear, and the food we eat, are all provided by others. None of them would exist but for the kindness of so many people unknown to us.
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The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.
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Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
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Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
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I'm happy that just about on every other show there's a Latino somewhere present, and we're not all the cooks anymore.
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This is more like a reflection of past and present, and maybe the future, I’m not a soothsayer; however, I don't feel like I took every sound and put them all into one or anything like that. It’s just a reflection of all the great opportunities I’ve been lucky enough to have in Nashville, and other things that didn’t go as well and things that have.
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I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.
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Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.
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Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.
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One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.
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When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
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Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.
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I scarcely believe that in psychology data are present which can be mathematically evaluated. But one cannot know this with certainty, without having made the experiment. God alone is in possession of the mathematical bases of psychic phenomena.
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Have this thought ever present with thee, when thou losest any outward thing, what thou gainest in its stead; and if this be the more precious, say not, I have suffered loss. (27).
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We must be able to identify all the parts in a system and allow them to speak. All the parts in a group, even those we do not like or believe to be useless, must be present and supported.
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
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We are swiftly moving at present from an era where business was our culture into an era when culture will be our business. Between these poles stand the huge and ambiguous entertainment industries. (p. 384)
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New things get noticed. This means you can't be afraid to present something new to your market, even if it's just a variation or an addition to an already-existing product or service.
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God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.
