Quotes: present
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.
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Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
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Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
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I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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Frederick Douglass
African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer
1818-1895
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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1 jast think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
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