Quotes with present-giving

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  • Hermann Hesse You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Asa Gray Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Tony Campolo Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.
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  • Barbara Hepworth [My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life...
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Walter Benjamin All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Oscar Wilde An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Eliot For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Denis Diderot Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Thomas Fuller He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Karl Marx On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its ''great intellects.''
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Simone Weil The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Buddha The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Simone Weil There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Simone Weil Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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