Present Quotes
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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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I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.
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The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.
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Did one man write Shui Hu Chuan, or did it grow to its present shape, added to, rearranged, deepened and developed by many minds and many a hand, in different centuries? Who can now tell? They are dead. They lived in their day and wrote what in their day they saw and heard, but of themselves they have told nothing.
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Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.
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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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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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The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.
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Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?
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We can never really touch the present because as soon as it is here, it is gone.
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Love is not a quality of 'God'- is it God's very Essence. It is the ALL-encompassing Reality of the Never-Ending Present. It is the Core of Your Existence.
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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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The present moment is a powerful goddess.
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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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Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
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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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History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.
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I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.
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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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What I want in my career is different to what I wanted when I was 21. It's got to be something that keeps my family together, that allows me to be present in their lives.
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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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The past haunts the present in mores ways than we realize. It certainly scares the living daylights out of me.
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It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?
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The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings, and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to senses tried by the present day kaleidoscope of events.
