Present Quotes
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Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.
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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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I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?
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What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself the climactic event and fact of cosmic history. From then on everything is differentthe End came forward into the present in Jesus the Messiah
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If I can be in a position of power and influence, and be able to make my present better, then I want to do that.
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
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And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.
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Living communion with God in which He is real, alive, fresh, and present to your soul energizes a God-centered life.
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I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.
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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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If you can't be present when the time comes, then you may miss the opportunity.
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With 'The Keep,' I began with a theory about pitting the isolated disconnection of the gothic realm against present-day hyperconnectedness. I emerged feeling that the gothic genre is all about hyperconnectedness - the possibility of disembodied communication - and that we now live in a kind of permanently gothic state.
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Stay in the present. And that's not a glib answer. The way to stay in the present is to have a love for what you're doing and a vitality and a sense of well-being that is generated by your art.
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Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.
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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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We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.
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I've set the bar high in terms of having a very feminist attitude towards how I present my body.
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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
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For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
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I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.
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Whenever a treaty of peace is signed, God is present.
