Their Present Quotes
44 quotes by 41 authors
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Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and…
— Adam Sedgwick
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The children's writer not only makes a satisfactory connection between [the writer's] present maturity and his past childhood, he also does the same for his…
— Philippa Pearce
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The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket,…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially…
— Walt Whitman
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When Germany and England and America will long have lost their present identity or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours.
— Maurice Samuel
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There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace....Mortals will some day assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God....Dropping their present beliefs,…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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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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Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.
— Eknath Easwaran
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They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to…
— Booth Tarkington
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That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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A life without regret can be attained by full awareness of one's actions in their present moment.
— Michelle Cruz
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Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down." This is…
— David Starr Jordan
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It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their art, their psychology,…
— Frederick Lenz
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When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but…
— Christian D. Larson
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The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented Easterners are satisfied…
— Hu Shih
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We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than…
— Winston Churchill
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In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him.…
— King Hussein I
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