Present Day Quotes
151 Present Day quotes by 131 unique authors
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[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.
— Donald Knuth
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We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.
— William Wordsworth
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The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between…
— Eugenio Montale
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And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day…
— Wilfred Burchett
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You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations…
— Jethro Tull
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It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could have ever been present.…
— Charles Darwin
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Before I proposed to my now-wife, I was understandably nervous. My father suggested that I take stock of all of my experiences and relationships with…
— Justin Halpern
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Nazi ideologies continue to the present day behind the veil of supposedly free societies and governments.
— James Morcan
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Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace.…
— John McCain
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[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human…
— Charles Kimball
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If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our…
— Edward Teller
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It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not…
— Ludwig von Mises
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I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the…
— Patricia Highsmith
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One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to…
— Marcus Garvey
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The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.
— Vincent Massey
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Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so…
— Edward Bach
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One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place…
— John Dos Passos
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It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution…
— Evan Davis
Who Wrote These Present Day Quotes
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