Quotes 421 till 440 of 561.
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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
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The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature - a type nowhere at present existing.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997) p. 333 -
The same meaning changes with the words which express it. Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
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The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
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The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.
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The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.
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The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
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There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
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