Present Day Quotes
151 Present Day quotes by 131 unique authors
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Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means that nothing else…
— Jessica Valenti
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We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second…
— William Labov
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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
— Adam Sedgwick
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Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity…
— John Cowper Powys
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There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.
— Keith Devlin
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I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
— Oscar Wilde
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The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast and profound changes…
— Pope Paul VI
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And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in…
— Savitri Devi
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One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion.
— Kin Hubbard
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If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.
— Jacque Fresco
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Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.
— Ernest Istook
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Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time…
— Friedrich Engels
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In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew of ourselves and…
— Terrance Hayes
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A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who…
— Erich Fromm
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As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently…
— Joan D. Vinge
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Bad debt is sacrificing your future day needs for your present day desires.
— Suze Orman
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Have you ever said, 'I can't do that! I'm just not like that!'? If you've ever used this phrase, you've hit the boundary of how…
— Tony Robbins
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Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in the world of…
— William Whewell
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