Quotes with present-day

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  • Benjamin Franklin He that rises late must trot all day.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Oscar Wilde He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Victor Hugo He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Olympia Brown He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
    Olympia Brown
    American minister and suffragist (1835 - 1926)
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  • Abu Bakr He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • Karl Kraus He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Victor Hugo He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bliss Carman Here's to the day when it is May
    And care as light as a feather,
    When your little shoes and my big boots
    Go tramping over the heather.
    A Toast
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • C. Wright Mills Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • A. E. Housman His folly has not fellow
    Beneath the blue of day
    That gives to man or woman
    His heart and soul away.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 14, st. 3
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Bill Nye History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Ben Lovett Hopefully, one day people will be able to look at Mumford & Sons and say, 'that's a career band.' It's all about time instead of sales.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • George Washington Carver How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Bill Hicks How much do you smoke a day sir? Pack! What a little puss. Gosh, why don't you just put a dress on and show it all to us while you smoke your little faggoty pack. C'mon, swish around for us. Damnit that pisses me off. I go through two lighters a day, dude. I'm starting to feel it.
    Sane Man
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bill Hicks How much do you smoke, sir? Two packs a day, is that right? Pussy. I go through two lighters a day. That's right, two lighters! You're a health nut compared to me. You're like the Jack LaLanne of smokers compared to me.
    Flying Saucer Tour Vol. I
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Robert Cecil Day-Lewis How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.
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  • Antonin Artaud However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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