Present Quotes
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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you…
— Rodney Yee
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and…
— Victor Hugo
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An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate…
— Niels Kaj Jerne
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Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between…
— J. G. Ballard
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Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting hat, but a…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight,…
— Remy de Gourmont
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Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war policies. Thereby…
— Michael Parenti
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No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary…
— George Washington
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each…
— Joseph Addison
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As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:…
— Thomas Paine
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There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear?…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and…
— Edward Everett
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In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to…
— Karl Marx
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To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an…
— Thomas Traherne
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and…
— Adam Sedgwick
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If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a…
— Aristotle
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Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also…
— Aristotle
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