Current Quotes
1348 quotes by 1160 authors
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Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should and…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
— David Antin
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We are not the personalities that our egos are so valiantly defending. Our personalities are simply the result of our current programming.
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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Your current situation is no indication of your ultimate potential!
— Tony Robbins
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We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
— William Shakespeare
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Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units -…
— Clay Shirky
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Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.
— William J. Clinton
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Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual…
— Mary McCarthy
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Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones
— Marshall McLuhan
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Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught…
— Ayn Rand
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Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort…
— Charles Tilly
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The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.
— Joseph Sobran
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There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires.…
— Walter Russell
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This means that we have here an entirely separate kind of chemistry for which the current tool we use is the electrometer, not the balance,…
— Marie Curie
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Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a…
— James Jeans
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The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the…
— James C. Collins
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In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two…
— Louis Pasteur
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The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us…
— Muhammad Yunus
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