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What I am interested in is the present time.
Sophie Marceau / Actress
Present Time
Present
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The future is keeping you out of the present time.
Van Morrison / Singer-Songwriter
Present Time
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Happiness is present time, it has nothing to do with the future.
Robert Holden / Author
Happiness
Present Time
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The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
Charles Caleb Colton / Writer
Time
Advantage
Present Time
Over
Present
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The present time, together with the past, shall be judged by a great jovialist.
Nostradamus / Apothecary
Judged
Past
Present Time
Together
Time Great Together
Time Great Past
Present
Shall
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He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.
Jules Michelet / Historian
Present Time
Reality
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To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.
Mark Twain / Author
Men
Angel
Present Time
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo / Poet
Science
Time
Past
Present Time
Apparent
Hence
Microscope
Past Time
Telescope
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The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford / Lawyer
Men
Earth
Material Things
Present Time
Wealth
Few Men
Material
Possess
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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Leonardo Da Vinci / Painter
Life
Time
Present Time
Rivers
Water
Touch
First
Last
Present
Passed
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Do not lose power over the what-ifs of your life. These are unlimited and endless. Keep your power in the now, in present time.
Gary Zukav / Author
Endless
Present Time
Unlimited
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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / Philosopher
Endless
Long
Long Time
Nevertheless
Present Time
Time Me Long
Time Long Me
Exist
Effect
Shall
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
W. H. Davies / Poet
Impress
Ordinary
Present Time
Conversational
Time Power Men
Ordinary Men
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There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Attitude
Civilization
Flow
Present Time
Single
Thread
Direction
Early
Mediterranean
Present
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Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.
Marcus Aurelius / Roman Emperor
Present Time
Thee
Thyself
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One of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America.
Robert Baden-Powell / Writer
Finest
Late
Present Time
Statesmen
United States Of America
Mr
Present
Roosevelt
Scout
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You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.
L. Ron Hubbard / Author
Past
Present Time
Treated
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From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.
George J. Mitchell / Former United States Senator
Sister
Brother
Brothers And Sisters
Present Time
Strong
Work Ethic
Life Time Work
Brothers
Sisters
Earliest
Ethic
Life Work Time
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At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
Ben Nicholson / Artist
Architecture
Best Way
Computer
Long
Our World
Present Time
Thinking
Time Best World
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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 /
Creation
Historic
International
Present Time
Proletariat
Republic
Socialist
Basis
Task
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Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.
Joseph Smith, Jr. / Translator
Men
Heaven
Hell
Present Time
Salvation
Time Men Man
Seen
Either
Present
Revelation
Testify
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To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.
George William Norris /
Neutrality
Ought
Present Time
Verge
War Time Believe
Maintained
Strictest
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All the action, in semiconductors at the present time is in the new consumer applications, and that's where we have focused our activities since we started doing our own products in the late '90s.
David Milne / Writer
Action
Focused
Late
Present Time
Products
Since
Time Where Doing
Activities
Applications
Consumer
Present
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And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.
Hu Shih / Philosopher
Done
Economic
Political Revolution
Present Time
School
Social
Everywhere
Revolutions
Bring
Time Done Political
Tremendous
Industrial
Lastly
Present
Schools
Social Changes
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I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.
Franz Boas / Anthropologist
Anthropology
Currents
Immortal
Present Time
Presenting
Time Work Hope
Due
Darwin
Work Hope Time
Helped
However
Imperfectly
Succeeded
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We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.
John Dewey / Philosopher
Prepared
Present Time
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Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.
Bhumibol Adulyadej / King Of Thailand
Present Time
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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 / Film Writer
Book
Mood
My Favorite
Present Time
Relative
Want
Time Always Find
Author
Favorite
Context
Elevated
Finish
Immediately
Present
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I don't believe in coincidences. I believe that things happen for a reason, and I think God has things - whether it's good or bad - happen towards a bigger picture that you don't necessarily understand at the present time.
Goldlink /
Bigger Picture
Present Time
Things Happen
Time God Good
God Time Good
Coincidences
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This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
Origen / Scholar
Angel
Devil
Fall
Opinion
Present Time
Angels
Possible
Held
Himself
However
Induced
Present
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I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!
Jonathan Coe / Novelist
Novelists
Present Time
Well Educated
Time History Country
More Or Less
Travelled
Widely
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The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.
Josiah Royce / Philosopher
Aspect
Deeper
Firsts
Giving
Idealism
Notion
Present Time
Self
Absolute
Formed
Preparatory
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Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.
John Desmond Bernal / Physicist
Dream
Existence
Human Existence
Humanity
Permanent
Plenty
Present Time
Primitive
Satisfaction
Sex
Sight
Utopian
Within
Arrival
Awaits
Side
Dominate
Still
Longer
Present
Permanent Peace
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I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Admiration
Dawn
Grateful
Gratitude
Homage
Honor
Memories
Paid
Present Time
Sacrifice
Time History Men
Justly
Memory
Nobly
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You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Anthrax
Bottom
Higher
Present Time
Weapons
Time Never Down
Barrel
Deliver
Explained
Present
Quite A Lot
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We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that may be something we do in the future, but I must say that there is no commitment to that at the present time in any form or size.
David Milne / Writer
Commitment
Present Time
Size
Acquisitions
Consider
However
Opportunities
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I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.
Danny Masterson / Actor
Ability
Clear
Important Things
Integrity
People
Present Time
Together
Unethical
Time Always Together
Time Together Me
Helped
Present
Situations
The Most Important
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I think that focusing all experiences through the lens of the Internet is an example of not being able to see history through the eyes of others, to be so enamored of one's present time that one cannot see that the world was once elsewise and was not about you.
Ellen Ullman / Author
Enamored
Present Time
Focusing
Lens
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Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
William Temple / Bishop Of Manchester
Air
Arrows
Complaints
Critical
Fall
Hovering
Inability
Present Time
Purpose
Target
Wish
Shot
Criticizing
Destroy
Heads
Indeed
Present
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I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
Adam Osborne / Author
Available
Believe
Believer
Evidence
Interpreting
Leaving
Mind
Present Time
Strict
Tomorrow
Time Best Work
Appear
Best Time Work
Best Work Time
Present
Principle
Scientific
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To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.
Phil Anselmo / Musician
Capacity
Musician
Needs
Present Time
Writing
Time Me Way
Extreme
Box
Metal
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The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects of film which were to be informative and educational and even spiritual.
Brian Cox / Physicist
Cinema
Educational
Film
Hollywood
Industry
Informative
Lost
Marketing
Present Time
Spiritual
Touch
Aspects
Audiences
Early
Fact
Present
Sixties
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In the present time you don't really establish what you're going through, but after time it's declared something. Right now there could be some writers doing something expressing their thoughts in a whole different style that we're not aware of. This could be the 'in-between the notes generation.'
Garrett Hedlund / Film Actor
Notes
Present Time
Aware
Writers
Establish
Expressing
Generation
In-Between
Present
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Whatever my trouble had been at first, it developed into separation of the retina in both eyes. From the day on which I first consulted the oculist up to the present time, about twenty-four years, I have only been three times in 'The World' building. Most people think I'm dead or living in Europe in complete retirement.
Joseph Pulitzer / Publisher
Europe
Present Time
Retirement
Separation
Three
Time World Day
Time Eyes World
Dead
Complete
Developed
Eyes
Present
Twenty-Four
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