Present Quotes

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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present… — George Washington
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to… — Ben Jonson
I can't really do anything about the past and all I can do is just embrace the future and try to make the most of… — Zach Sudfeld
for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we… — Thomas Jefferson
Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to… — Guy Finley
What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment. — Nick Saban
Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of… — Nikola Tesla
Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he… — Alfred Binet
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido R Qubein
Do not let anything from your past inhibit you in this Present Moment. Start over. Start Fresh. Each day. Each hour, if it serves you.… — Neale Donald Walsch
The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences. — John Dewey
If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain… — William James
The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision,… — William James
Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment. — Abraham Maslow
The future is much like the present, only longer. — Dan Quisenberry
If Bible Christianity is to survive the present world upheaval, we shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness and the beauty of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. — Norman Foster
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with… — George Santayana
You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present...you are not alone. — Douglas Wilson
If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from… — Abraham Lincoln

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