Currents Quotes
1207 quotes by 1032 authors
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The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are…
— Deepak Chopra
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You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown…
— Giorgos Seferis
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We must eat three meals a day, even if we're not hungry, and when we fail to fit the current ideal of beauty we must…
— Paulo Coelho
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Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads…
— Rosa Luxemburg
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Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.
— Allan Gurganus
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The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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The current generation of world leaders -- our generation -- is also being called to face significant challenges concerning peace, collective security and the environment.…
— Dilma Rousseff
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These masters of the universe must be tamed in the interests of the ordinary families whose jobs and livelihoods are being put at risk... The…
— Vince Cable
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Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love unless love is…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only…
— Giorgio de Chirico
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Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top - though they often do - but that the best will never…
— Paul Jacob
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Our current tax code is one that was designed by and for the benefit of politicians and lobbyists. It punishes achievement and rewards laziness. It…
— Neal Boortz
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I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional…
— Meryl Streep
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On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.
— Joseph J. Romm
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Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2.2°C warmer than today), Antarctica had…
— Joseph J. Romm
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Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth, currents from the Mackenzie and…
— Hal Borland
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I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterdays election that they disapprove of the current direction in the…
— Jim Clyburn
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It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs…
— Emile Durkheim
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The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice,…
— Robert Solow
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The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.
— Stephen Covey
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