Currents Quotes
1207 quotes by 1032 authors
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Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which are necessary in…
— Murray Rothbard
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International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men…
— J. William Fulbright
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Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to…
— Nicholas Negroponte
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The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog…
— Carl Ally
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Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb.
— Joe Sakic
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These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.
— Don Tapscott
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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity…
— Oscar Wilde
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It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large number of abortions…
— Al Gore
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I am not against all wars-just whichever is current.
— Ken Gillespie
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Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
— John Dewey
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Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.
— Brian Tracy
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
— Thomas Gray
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There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and…
— Matthew Fontaine Maury
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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Advice, the smallest current coin.
— Ambrose Bierce
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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