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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.
Pensees -
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 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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The doctrine of the Second Coming has failed, so far as we are concerned, if it does not make us realize that at every moment of every year in our lives Donne's question What if this present were the world's last night? is equally relevant.
The Worlds Last Night (1952) -
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Second State of the Union address (1862) -
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
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The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
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The future influences the present just as much as the past.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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