Current Quotes
1348 quotes by 1160 authors
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Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered.
— Robert Redford
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes…
— Harold Bloom
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Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect…
— Murong Xuecun
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I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making…
— Donald Knuth
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The current operating system [culture] is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath our own feet.…
— Terence McKenna
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The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.
— Robert Musil
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I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign…
— James L. Buckley
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Why cry about missed opportunities when you have the ability to smile at opportunities lived? The past has created who you are NOW, where we…
— Greg Plitt
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In the current era, more than prodigies in mathematics, science, athletics, or art, I believe we need prodigies of good character and integrity. People who…
— Ilchi Lee
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If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.
— Jim Rohn
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Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence,…
— Marvin Minsky
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Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of good business…
— Benjamin Graham
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The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the direction of all…
— David Bentley Hart
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By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the…
— John Rutledge
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I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative…
— Debbie Harry
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The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think…
— Roone Arledge
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Until you make peace with your difficult memories, that pain will continue to bleed into your current and future experiences.
— Iyanla Vanzant
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What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon…
— Eric Schlosser
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You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two very different ways.…
— Milton Friedman
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The master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes…
— Laozi
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