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  • You [President Kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against offensive weapons. I think that a blockade and political talk would be considered by a lot of our friends and neutrals as being a pretty weak response to this [the Cuban missile crisis]. And I'm sure a lot of our own citizens would feel that way too. In other words, you're in a pretty bad fix at the present time.

    Strong   War   Thinking  
  • From the descent of the Holy Spirit at the beginning we may learn something concerning His operations at the present time. Remember at the outset that whatever the Holy Spirit was at the first, He is that now, for as God, He remains forever the same-whatever He did then He is able to do still, for His power is by no means diminished.

    Mean   Forever   May  
    Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.617, Barbour Publishing
  • 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.

  • 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, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.41, Lulu.com
  • 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.

    Believe   Leaving   Mind  
  • Though we must hold to our faith in the evolution of species, there is little evidence as to how it has come about, and no clear proof that the process is continuing in any considerable degree at the present time.

    Faith   Time   Degrees  
  • As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

    John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.18, Read Books Ltd
  • Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either.

    Men   Heaven   Religion  
    "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith", p. 160,
  • 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.

  • When you have the catalog of work, it doesn't feel like you've got one shot to get it right; it's just like, you're making a new document of something at the present time, and it's a living thing, and it changes. It's been cool to help other people make their records, to produce. You get a crash course in things that you don't get as the artist.

    "Contact: Guitar Wunderkind Blake Mills". Interview with Jacob Blickensraff, www.motherjones.com. February 24, 2015.
  • The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.

    Dwight L Moody (2001). “The Secret of Success in the Christian Life”, p.19, Moody Publishers
  • From the day of Pentecost until the present time, it has been necessary to be of one accord in prayer before the Spirit of God will work with mighty converting power.

    World Student Christian Federation, John Raleigh Mott (1898). “The World's Student Christian Federation: Origin, Objects and Significance of the Federation; the Convention at Northfield and Williamstown; Some Achievements of the First Two Years”
  • The word patriotism, or its equivalents and derivations, is upon everyone's lips at the present time. It is a magic word which is thought by most people to cover any multitude of sins. To be patriotic in whatever cause is tantamount to being virtuous, while no worse charge can be brought against a man in popular estimation than to say he is unpatriotic.

    Patriotic   Men   People  
  • The Talmud derives its authority from the position held by the ancient (Pharisee) academies. The teachers of those academies, both of Babylonia and of Palestine, were considered the rightful successors of the older Sanhedrin...At the present time, the Jewish people have no living central authority comparable in status to the ancient Sanhedrins or the later academies. Therefore, any decision regarding the Jewish religion must be based on the Talmud as the final resume of the teaching of those authorities when they existed.

  • 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 (2007). “Handbook for Preclears”, p.103, Bridge Publications, Inc.
  • There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

    Strong   History   Evil  
    Edward Gibbon (2000). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.253, Modern Library
  • Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  • 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.

    Life   Time   Rivers  
    Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.258, OUP Oxford
  • The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

    Love   Life   God  
  • I have the greatest affection for them but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they're dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like.

    Dog   Years   Tea  
    Tapes from 1971 as presented in "All the Philosopher King's Men" by James Warren in "Harper's Magazine", February 2000.
  • I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

    Age   World   Taste  
    Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.50, Ballantine Books
  • It is an irrational claim to believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ and at the same time to hold that the greater part of his teachings have no application at the present time. If you say that the reason why the powers do not follow them that believe (as Christ said they would) is because you have not faith enough and are not pure enough-that will be all right. But to say that they have no application at the present time is to be ridiculous.

    Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”
  • Whether we like it or not, a breakdown in home-life will eventually lead to a breakdown everywhere. This is, surely, the most menacing and dangerous aspect of the state of society at this present time. Once the family idea, the family unit, the family life is broken up - once that goes, soon you will have no other allegiance.

    Home   Ideas   Broken  
  • One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

    Girl   Fear   Silly  
  • It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time

    Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press
  • Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

  • The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.

  • 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.

    Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”
  • What I am interested in is the present time

  • The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

    Men   Earth   Wealth  
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