Quotes with present-day

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  • Benjamin Disraeli At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
    Letter to Sarah Brydges Willyams (17 oktober 1863)
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Adolf Loos At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Brett Ratner At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Bill Haslam At the end of the day, I think the most conservative principle there is, is giving people a dollar worth of value for a dollar worth of tax paid.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Bill Haslam At the end of the day, I'm certainly hopeful they can leave some time to focus on Tennessee history. But we understand the struggle when it comes to curriculum time and what you just physically don't have time for.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Carl Lewis At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg At the end of the day, it's a very powerful voice when you're able to perform on any level on any stage and have the audience, have the attention of children. It's a gift. It's not to be taken lightly, and it can be used for good or for bad.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg At the end of the day, leaving WrestleMania, having my hand raised, beating Brock Lesnar... I'd say it was a pretty successful tenure.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Busta Rhymes At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Burgess Owens At the end of the day, there are risks; there's no question - in any sport, any activity.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Armstrong Williams At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Bev Perdue At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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  • Ben Nicholson At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Samuel Johnson Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Brock Lesnar Back in the day, I was a Royce Gracie fan and a fan of Tank Abbott. It's always the different-looking guys that you want to root for. Then there were guys like Mark Coleman and Randy Couture, so for me to get in there and fight against guys like that is pretty cool.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Elmore Leonard Bad guys are not bad guys twenty-four hours a day.
    Elmore Leonard
    American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (1925 - 2013)
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  • Andy Warhol Bad taste makes the day go by faster.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Anthony Burgess Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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