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Present Quotes
"Remember that there is onlyone important time and is Now. The present moment isthe only time over which we have dominion. The mostimportant person is always the person with whom youare, who is right before you, for who knows if you willhave dealings with any other person in the future. Themost important pursuit is making that person, the onestanding at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuitof life."
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"I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out."
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"A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen."
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"There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence."
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"On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian."
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"Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician."
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"At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered."
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"How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?"
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"Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other."
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"Live in the present moment, you can't go back to yesterday, you can't leap into tomorrow, Today is your second, minute, hour! Embrace It!"
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"I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it."
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"The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent."
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"But surrealism is present in most of my pictures."
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"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."
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"I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic."
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"Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live."
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"I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present."
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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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"Today can only be as good as you interpret it to be."
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"What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?"
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"In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense."
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"I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you."
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"Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing."
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"The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present."
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"A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away."
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"The first question they ask is: "Why was he eternally surprised?"And they were told: "Wen considered the nature of time and understood the universe is, instant by instant, re-created anew. Therefore, he understood, there is, in truth, no Past, only a memory of the Past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it."
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"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."
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"If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them."
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"In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined."
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"Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee."
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"As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that's wrong with our present masters."
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"Let go of your PAST. Llive in the NOW!"
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"All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration."
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"We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present."
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"I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor."
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"Create an atmosphere for the Spirit. The Spirit must be present."
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"At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city."
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"Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location."
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"Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words."
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