Quotes with present

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  • Norman Mailer 1 jast think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Adam Sedgwick A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson A friend is a present you give to yourself.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Ben Zobrist A lot of times, if you stay in the present and focus on getting the most out of yourself today, then things work out the way they're supposed to.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Fawn M. Brodie A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
    Fawn M. Brodie
    American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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  • Bernard Crick A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 4, A Defence Of Politics Against Nationalism,
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Ronald Laing Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • John Banville All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.
    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • William Blake All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Benjamin Franklin All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas All this happens without him knowing - they actually install cameras in his apartment and hire this girl to get him to fall in love with her so that she can be in the apartment and present him products without him knowing.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Warren Gamaliel Harding America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Jacques Prevert An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.
    Jacques Prevert
    French poet and prose st (1900 - 1977)
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  • Aulus Gellius Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
    Aulus Gellius
    Roman author and grammarian
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  • Franz Grillparzer As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
    Franz Grillparzer
    Austrian play writer (1791 - 1872)
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  • Derek Wall At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.
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  • Benjamin Disraeli At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
    Letter to Sarah Brydges Willyams (17 oktober 1863)
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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