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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

- Benoit Mandelbrot

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

- Matt Blunt

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

- Phyllis Theroux

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.

- Clifford D. Simak

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.

- Edmund Husserl

At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.

- Joseph Hume

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

- Elizabeth Gaskell

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

- James S. Coleman

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

- William S. Burroughs

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.

- Henri Bergson

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.

- Joseph J. Ellis

No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.

- Roger Williams

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

- James Earl Jones

I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

- Garry Shandling

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

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.

- Hugh Mackay

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

- Walter Benjamin

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

- Roland Joffe

I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.

- Hideki Tojo

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

- Helen Dunmore

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

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

- George Orwell

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

- William Wilberforce

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

- Vincente Minnelli

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

- Michael Lewis

As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that's wrong with our present masters.

- Tom Metzger

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

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

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