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History is not about the past; it is about understanding the present and shaping the future.
Author:
Wendell Berry
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The beauty of the present moment lies in its imperfections, for it is through our flaws that we reveal our true resilience.
Author:
Amara Johnson
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
Author:
Bil Keane
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Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other.
Author:
Wilhelm Wundt
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I do not like Melbourne in its present state.
Author:
William Wills
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
Author:
Nathaniel Willis
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The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
Author:
Alan Watts
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Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.
Author:
Julie Walters
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Endure the present, and watch for better things.
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Virgil
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A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
Author:
Ivan Turgenev
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The entire fruit is already present in the seed.
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Tertullian
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Author:
Rabindranath Tagore
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The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.
Author:
Theodore Sorensen
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Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.
Author:
Peter Singer
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If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.
Author:
Kathleen Sebelius
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Create an atmosphere for the Spirit. The Spirit must be present.
Author:
Richard Scott
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The present is a point just passed.
Author:
David Russell
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Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.
Author:
Pete Rozelle
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If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.
Author:
David Ricardo
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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?
Author:
Francois Rabelais
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At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.
Author:
John Polkinghorne
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I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
Author:
John Poindexter
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I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
Author:
Luigi Pirandello
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The present will not long endure.
Author:
Pindar
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On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.
Author:
Zebulon Pike
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.
Author:
Vincente Minnelli
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As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that's wrong with our present masters.
Author:
Tom Metzger
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We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.
Author:
Melina Mercouri
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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Author:
Karl Marx
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In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.
Author:
Trofim Lysenko
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I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.
Author:
Kristanna Loken
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
Author:
Karl Liebknecht
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I shall hold myself particularly answerable to my constituents for my present conduct, and in general to all my fellow Citizens throughout these States, when properly questioned.
Author:
Henry Laurens
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The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.
Author:
Corliss Lamont
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A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.
Author:
Diane Johnson
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But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
Author:
Jacky Ickx
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Make a good use of the present.
Author:
Horace
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I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
Author:
Edward Hopper
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You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.
Author:
Al Hirschfeld
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I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.
Author:
Mariel Hemingway
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Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.
Author:
Robert Grosseteste
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Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
Author:
Matt Groening
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Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun.
Author:
Wilson Greatbatch
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When you are present, the world is truly alive.
Author:
Natalie Goldberg
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A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it.
Author:
Jeff Foxworthy
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I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation.
Author:
Jim Evans
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The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.
Author:
Frank Dobson
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I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.
Author:
Thayer David
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All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.
Author:
Nicholas Culpeper
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I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.
Author:
George Crumb
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Crying over what's gone won't find the present.
Author:
Edwin Cole
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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
Author:
Emile Cioran
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
Author:
Basil Bunting
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I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
Author:
Vincent Bugliosi
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Confine yourself to the present.
Author:
Marcus Aurelius
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I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.
Author:
Rene Auberjonois
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Author:
Aristotle
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.
Author:
Pamela Anderson
