Currents Quotes
1207 quotes by 1032 authors
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There was never a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.
— Edgar Dale
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Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these tests are missing a vital…
— Robert Sternberg
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I dust [your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I'm caressing you as in the old days.…
— Nelson Mandela
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I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to…
— Tony Dungy
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The climate challenge illustrates how we have to change. The developing countries need more support and opportunities to develop and use clean energy. Because if…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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The points or tips of the chakras, where they connect to the main power current, are called the roots or the hearts of the chakras.…
— Barbara Brennan
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The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it. A field of…
— Freeman Dyson
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Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the idea that talking…
— Vaclav Klaus
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The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small…
— Al Gore
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Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.
— Martin Buber
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A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through…
— George Orwell
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They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really…
— Anne Lamott
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Plant genetic resources are seldom 'raw materials'; they are the expression of the current wisdom of farmers who have played a highly significant role in…
— Melaku Worede
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The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he…
— Alexander Berkman
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And I would like current or future politicians to make sure every avenue of diplomacy, and what you have, are exhausted before sending young men…
— Tomas Young
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Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant…
— Martin Gardner
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As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other…
— William Thurston
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When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged…
— Arthur Koestler
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Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess
— Frank Brady
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