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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
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
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
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
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. — Marcus Aurelius
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
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
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
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
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
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
There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective… — Alexander Hamilton
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
At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists. — Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
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
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
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
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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