Present Quotes

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Whenever armed forces . . . are used, the idea of combat must be present. . . . The end for which a soldier is… — Carl von Clausewitz
Bear in Mind...that all Histories from the Rock at Plymouth, and Jamestown to the present time, have been made by white men, and a man… — Sam Houston
People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and… — Robert Anton Wilson
Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next — Roger Scruton
This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not… — Paulo Freire
An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of… — Lion Feuchtwanger
With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense. — Kevin Systrom
I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court. — Gabriela Sabatini
Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the… — Ivan Illich
When I create music, it is a reflection of my soul, my experiences in life and my relationships with other people and cultures. Psychology, and… — Yanni
You cant make your music good. You cant try to be good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open… — Michael Hedges
Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich.… — Robert D. Kaplan
The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right. — Lewis Gordon
In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation… — Humphry Davy
Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism, and those who… — Eric Hobsbawm
When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is an attempt to… — Gary Zukav
Relax into the present moment. — Gary Zukav
The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss. — Jared Diamond
The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or square. I am less interested… — Ellsworth Kelly
When we pray, it opens our minds to the divine consciousness of God. Prayer opens your mind to answers that have always been present. — Iyanla Vanzant

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