Quotes with present-day

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  • Alan Greenspan Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • John Steinbeck Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Richard Whately Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Denis Waitley Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive... to live now... to have the courage to confront each day.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Carl Lewis M so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Horace Make a good use of the present.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Billy Graham Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Arthur Helps Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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  • William S. Burroughs Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Lord George Byron Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Samuel Butler Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Joseph De Maistre Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Bill Vaughan Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Bishop Joseph Henshaw Man's life is like unto a winter's day, Some break their fast and so depart away, Others stay dinner then depart full fed; The longest age but sups and goes to bed. Oh, reader, then behold and see, As we are now so must you be.
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  • Bill Gurley Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Billy Porter Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater... and say, 'Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.' And then they get here and say, 'Oh, wait a minute, this actually is a craft!' It's not just show up one day and do it. It's show up eight times a week, twice on Wednesdays and twice on Saturdays.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Joan Didion Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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