Quotes with present-giving

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  • Bayard Taylor Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Samuel Johnson Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Buddha Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Abraham Tucker Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.
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  • Campbell Brown Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • James L. Hayes Effective managers live in the present but concentrate on the future.
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  • Bradley A. Smith Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Abdul Kalam English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Seneca Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Abraham Cowley Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish th' approaches of the last.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Paul J. Meyer Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
    Paul J. Meyer
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Andreas Capellanus Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
    Andreas Capellanus
    French writer (1150 - 1220)
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  • Carl Sandburg Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
    Source: Ever the Winds of Chance (1983)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ayn Rand Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
    Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • V. N. Volosinov Every sign is subject to the criteria of ideological evaluation. The domain of ideology coincides with the domain of signs. They equate with one another. Wherever a sign is present, ideology is present, too. Everything ideological possesses semiotic value.
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