Present Quotes
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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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In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.
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Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions 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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While swimming was always a spotlight sport, I was, if you will, sort of present at the creation when gymnastics became the new star lead-off hitter.
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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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Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!
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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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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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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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There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.
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For present joys are more to flesh and bloodThan a dull prospect of a distant good.
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I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.
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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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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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The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.
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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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But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.
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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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Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many other people and issues to think about. But being present makes you effective.
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We must know how to look into images to see that of which they are survivors. So that history, liberated from the pure past (that absolute, that abstraction), might help us to open the present of time.
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Nothing that happened before this moment has any power over you whatsoever, except to the extent to which you carry it into this moment. Dwell in the present with full forgiveness of yourself and others, and your life will be lifted to divine right order...perfection, prosperity and peace.
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Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
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The Creation Museum uses fossils to present evidence that there was a global catastrophe, Noah's Flood, that killed and preserved the remains of creatures all over the earth.
