Present Quotes
6568 quotes by 3495 authors
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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
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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
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Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10%
— Masaaki Hatsumi
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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
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When the Spirit is present, people are not offended when you share your feelings about the gospel.
— M. Russell Ballard
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The present system is unsustainable. The only question is whether we will master the change or it will master us.
— Hillary Clinton
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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
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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
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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
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I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I…
— John Keats
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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