Present Quotes
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If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.
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When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.
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One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place of mental processes and revolts, crimes, despairs pass off in a dribble of vague words and rubber stamp phrases without leaving a scratch on the mind of the driven instalment-paying, subway-packing mass.
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My responsibility is to present things in a way that is realistic and true to the multifaceted world I've known... This is how I think the world is, not how it should be.
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The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.
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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
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The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.
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My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.
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Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present.
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I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.
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Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
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The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.
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We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.
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Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?
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In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.
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When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
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Whenever a treaty of peace is signed, God is present.
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The past haunts the present in mores ways than we realize. It certainly scares the living daylights out of me.
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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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We view the past, and achieve our understanding of the past, only through the eyes of the present.
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The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible Belt, nor in parts of the Islamic world). Most people are at ease with the idea that our present biosphere is the outcome of four billion years of Darwinian evolution.
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We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.
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Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!
