Quotes 141 till 160 of 561.
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Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.
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Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.
Original:Si hubiera estado presente en la Creación, habría dado algunas indicaciones útiles.
Source: Thomas Carlyle, History of Frederick the Great― Alfonso X of Castile
X (also occasionally Alphonso, Alphonse, or Alfons, 23 November&# (1221 - 1284) -
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
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Happiness is a mental habit, a mental attitude, and if it is not learned and practiced in the present it is never experienced.
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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
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Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
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Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
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He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.
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However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.
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I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
Source: Interview on "NOW" with Bill Moyers on May 9, 2003 -
I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.
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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
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I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.
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