Quotes with present-day

Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 1406.

  • G. C. Lichtenberg The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Michel Foucault The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ''social worker'' -judge.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Arthur Scargill The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Abel Ferrara The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
    Abel Ferrara
    American filmmaker (1951 - )
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  • Edgar Quinet The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe The longest day must have its close -the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Alva Myrdal The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • C. S. Forester The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • William Bolitho The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.
    William Bolitho
    South African journalist, writer and biographer
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  • Bernie Sanders The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out of the labor market or unable to care for themselves have a basic income guarantee of about $100 per day.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Allen Tate The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Barbara de Angelis The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift The most accomplished way of using books at present is to serve them as some do lords, learn their titles, and then boast of their acquaintance.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Eugenio Montale The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.
    Eugenio Montale
    Italian poet (1896 - 1981)
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  • Alexis Carrel The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Hannah Arendt The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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