Presents Us Quotes
28 quotes by 28 authors
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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
— Andre Gide
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So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering…
— Charles Lyell
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You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly…
— Werner Heisenberg
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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.
— Oscar Wilde
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Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a dog. I think…
— Charles Krauthammer
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters,…
— Edward Abbey
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can…
— Epictetus
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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the…
— Loren Eiseley
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Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.
— Sharon Salzberg
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To embody a new paradigm of civilization - to learn to think like a planet in order to heal and nurture a planet - is…
— David Spangler
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God's love has a width, length, height, and depth, but we will never reach the end of it. Our capacity to experience God's love will…
— Max Lucado
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Israel is surrounded by a raging sea, parts of which are not willing to accept us as a partner with equal rights among the nations.…
— Ehud Barak
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The higher arithmetic presents us with an inexhaustible store of interesting truths - of truths, too, which are not isolated, but stand in a close…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it.…
— Aberjhani
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How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with common sense and…
— Dick Gephardt
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Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great…
— Theodore Dalrymple
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[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The…
— Neil Postman
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