Quotes 341 till 360 of 561.
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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.
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Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
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That could be solved, Siri said, Perhaps it would help if you refrained from speaking when others are present. I think I should find you quite amiable in those circumstances.
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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.
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The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.
Source: The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide: An Autobiography (1879) -
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
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The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.
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The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
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The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.
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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
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The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
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