Quotes with present-day

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  • Adlai Stevenson II We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
    Speech Richmond, Virginia, 20 september 1952
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • James Truslow Adams We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
    James Truslow Adams
    American writer and historian (1878 - 1949)
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  • Ben Klassen We CREATORS are builders. We are dedicated to the idea of building a beautiful world so different and so superior to the present one that we CREATORS of this generation will go down in history as the revolutionaries who ushered in the Golden Age of Mankind.
    White Mans Bible White Mans Bible (1983)
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  • Malcolm X We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Cecil Day Lewis We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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  • Barbara de Angelis We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Bob Ross We get letters every day from people wanting more mountains. As many as I paint, they still say, 'Give me more mountains.'
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • Mark Twain We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Jordan We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle We have already begun to fly; several persons, here and there, have found the secret to fitting wings to themselves, of setting them in motion, so that they are held up in the air and are carried across streams.... The art of flying is only just being born; it will be perfected, and some day we will go as far as the moon.
    Entretiens sur la Pluralite des Mondes Habite
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Herbert Hoover We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Bruce Vento We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.
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  • George Steiner We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Bill Vaughan We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Ronald Laing We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Madame Chiang Kai-Shek We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
    Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
    Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (1897 - 2003)
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  • Ben Foster We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Barney Ross We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Virginia Satir We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
    Virginia Satir
    American psychologist (1916 - 1988)
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