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Present Quotes

I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.

Me Present Charity Feel Place Run

Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.

Beginning Parents World Present Make

Nuclear weapons present us with a paradox: We spend billions of dollars building and maintaining them in the hope that we never have to use them.

Dianne Feinstein

Hope Building Present Never Us

It's very important for me to be absolutely present in order to be emotional.

Me Present Important Emotional Order

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Hope Shadow Tomorrow Moving Present

There is no greater example of government overreach and unrestrained liberalism than 'Obamacare.' It is so deeply flawed and such a clear and present threat to our economic stability that there is no way to fix it.

Government Present Way Fix Stability

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

Future Live Past Present Learn Look

I hate this idea that I've somehow become detached. It's like I can't win. I'd been hearing all these years that I was too hands-on: that I was the guy writing out the lineup card. Now, I'm not present enough. How is it possible to be a detached micromanager?

Hate Writing Win Present Enough Now

A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.

Home Present Reality Structure Far

My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.

Life Time Present My Life Exciting

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Desiderius Erasmus

Success Woman Fun Present Party Ask

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

Looking Present Language Know Teach

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Future Past Present Philosophy Easy

In the winter of 1940, 'The Atlantic Monthly' invited Peter Viereck, a twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate who had won the college's top essay and poetry prizes, to write about 'the meaning of young liberalism for the present age.'

Winter Age Poetry College Present

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

Penelope Lively

Time Past Present Fiction Happens

I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present.

Experience Past Value Think Present

This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat.

Karl Liebknecht

Time Present Creation Task Greatest

Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which must continue to increase till the increased price of production, caused by the expansion, shall be equal to the duty imposed, when a new tariff will be required.

John C. Calhoun

Present Country Price New Duty Will

Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways it's the impact of living in a digital environment, and in other ways it's just really what happens when you stop leaning so forward to the millennium and you finally arrive there.

Douglas Rushkoff

Time World Forward Present Impact

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

Future Past Present Sound Old Guess

I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for the audience rather than to present it to the audience for their enjoyment and them to mull over the questions that the characters present.

Character Start Think Present Judge

And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.

Time Experience Present Place Three

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

Present Universe Plan Profound Built

The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Present Country Ability Depend

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