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The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense. — Christopher Lasch
What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a… — Harold Bloom
Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10% — Masaaki Hatsumi
One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes. — Helen Lynd
When the Spirit is present, people are not offended when you share your feelings about the gospel. — M. Russell Ballard
You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something that is actually… — Leonard Jacobson
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact… — Eckhart Tolle
SETH said: The natural person is to be found, now, not in the past or in the present, but beneath layers and layers of official… — Jane Roberts
The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid the blame on… — Unknown Author
However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human… — Eric Hoffer
The present system is unsustainable. The only question is whether we will master the change or it will master us. — Hillary Clinton
Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)- that is in the choices… — Joanna Macy
Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there… — Aristotle
I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I… — John Keats
History matters. It matters whether we tell the truth about what happened centuries ago, and it matters whether we tell the truth about more recent… — Robert Jensen
The ever-present expectancy of death is never far removed from any of us - whether we realize it or not. None of us can avoid… — Richard L. Evans
Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been heretofore, were formerly… — Robert Hooke
Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present. — Joseph Grew
In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put… — Sigmund Freud

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