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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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"On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian."
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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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"At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered."
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"Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician."
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"The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent."
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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 dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative."
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"But surrealism is present in most of my pictures."
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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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"I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you."
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"I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic."
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"I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present."
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"Today can only be as good as you interpret it to be."
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"In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense."
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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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"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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"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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"What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?"
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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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"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."
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"At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee."
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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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"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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"Create an atmosphere for the Spirit. The Spirit must be present."
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"If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively."
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"Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location."
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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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"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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