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A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. — Joseph Addison
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. — Theodor Adorno
The man whose authority is recent is always stern. — Aeschylus
The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a… — James Buchan
I love cycling, running and swimming. In recent years I've competed regularly in triathlons, which means I don't find the physical side of driving a… — Jenson Button
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities… — Vince Cable
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. — George Carlin
I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the… — John le Carre
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really,… — John le Carre
The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling. — Lee Child
For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's immigrants. They have come here… — Barack Obama
We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea… — Jack Kemp
It is wrong, and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws that we have seen...in… — William J. Clinton
In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for… — William J. Clinton
One thing that's really interesting is not only the magnitude of the recent immigration into this country, but also its distribution and its investment in… — Kenneth Prewitt
It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of… — Grover Cleveland
It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours.… — Alva Myrdal
Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously. — William Eldridge Odom
Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed… — Alfred Binet
I feel that the recent ruling of the United States Army and Navy regarding the refusal of colored blood donors is an indefensible one from… — Charles R. Drew

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