Present Quotes

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Strong emotions are present in all people. Without feeling, we would not be human. It's unnatural for man to hide what he's feeling, though if… — Leo Buscaglia
Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life. — Cassius Jackson Keyser
Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and state… — Raymond Louis Wilder
Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool… — Silvanus P. Thompson
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found… — Lucy Parsons
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity. — Basil Bunting
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day.… — Horace Mann
The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political and economic establishments… — Thomas Berry
We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk! — Wangari Maathai
Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life. — Colin Farrell
The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present. — Rajneesh
When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We… — Jack Kornfield
My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell… — Isabel Allende
As you embrace the present and become one with it, and merge with it, you will experience a fire, a glow, a sparkle of ecstasy… — Deepak Chopra
I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that… — Ornette Coleman
I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present. — Dirk Benedict
The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people. — Gregor Strasser
I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood. — Natascha McElhone
The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment. — Henry David Thoreau

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