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"The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative."
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"The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles."

"Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it."

"At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered."

"The present moment is all that ever is, and in each new moment we die and are reborn. For example, people block love and close off their hearts out of fear of being hurt again. If they lived in the present moment, there would be no fear and they would walk forward in life with confidence and certainty that there is the joy of new experiences to be had."

"Tomorrow' is the thing that's always coming but never arrives. 'Today' is the thing that's already here and never leaves. And because that's the case, I would much prefer to invest in today than sit around waiting for an arrival that's not arriving."

"Live every single moment of your life, for the one thing that is most precious to you."
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"Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops."

"I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice."

"True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion."

"Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow."

"The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature."

"The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics."

"Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists."

"The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative."
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