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The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.

John Vinocur

TimeWarRedSufferingPresentLook

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Aristotle

PresentDownBringOnlyYourMeans

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

AgeTruthFreedomJusticePresent

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

Taylor Caldwell

AlonePastPresentChristmasNever

I always say to my people, 'If you don't sell a Ferrari to a football player, you make a big present to me.' Really. Because they buy to just show off. I don't like.

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

FootballPeopleMePresentYouSay

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.

Moses Mendelssohn

GodPresentActuallyThereforeAlso

I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.

Randy Quaid

LifeLoveGoodWorldPresentBigger

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Eckhart Tolle

LifeMomentFocusPresentYouNow

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

John Strachan

DeathPresentFallSorrowHimHoly

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Antoine Rivarol

LifeFuturePastManPresentHis

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

Emmet Fox

LifeLiveGodArtMomentPresent

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus

GoodPresentOldAlwaysOld Things

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

Louis Leakey

MindPresentEarlyQuestionEurope

You have asked me to lead this nation out of the present wilderness and malaise on to the promised land, and I shall do so; I shall offer a responsive, transparent, and innovative leadership.

Mwai Kibaki

LeadershipMeWildernessPresentYou

I don't want to feel what I'm creating on film has an outcome that is preordained. I don't think of the world as a place with a divinity that shapes our end. What you try to do with film is create, as far as you possibly can, an unfolding present - a theatre in which an outcome happens and is tested.

Paul Greengrass

TheatreWorldThinkPresentEndYou

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

Basil Bunting

PresentAppreciateThoseAntiquity

My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.

Amy Tan

TimeBookPresentFindPlaceMood

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

Annie Dillard

BirthdayPresentEvolutionReligions

Reaganism as a political movement has enormous resources behind it and it seeks - through stagecraft and through a tremendous level of effort toward propaganda - to present an image of Reagan that is so much larger-than-life that it sort of blinds us all, and keeps us all in a warm, happy, nostalgic state, thinking of a man who can do no wrong.

Eugene Jarecki

ManEffortHappyThinkingPresent

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

Saint Francis de Sales

WorkGodPresentPersonNowNever

Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.

Loretta Lynch

YourselfControlThinkPresentYou

I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people I teach - many of whom are acting teachers - is that an actor needs to make choices that make him present.

Martin Landau

TimePeopleChoicesPresentActing

E-books present the greatest opportunity readers have ever had to find each other. It's a chance for stories written for paper to find new life and a chance for new stories to appear, freed from the constraints of paper publishing.

Nick Earls

LifeOpportunityChancePresentFind

Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

Bai Ling

MeGiftPresentPersonWantSide

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