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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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
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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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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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A friend is a present you give to yourself.
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A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
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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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All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
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All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
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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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