#present

Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

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Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice. ↗

— Shoshana Zuboff

#activities #choices #inert #often #practice

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year. ↗

— John Thorn

#between #day #game #heritage #hope

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there. ↗

— Robin Trower

#christmas #got #guitar #i #present

More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#counties #half #losing #more #political

The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame. ↗

— Fay Vincent

#builders #candidates #consideration #election #executives

As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#day #drew #frequently #historical #i

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar. ↗

— Frederick M. Vinson

#constitutional #difference #imposed #individuals #intellectual

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#majority #muslims #overwhelming #overwhelming majority #radicals

Excuse me for harrowing you with this picture of war. But I am very full of it at present. ↗

— Edward Wadsworth

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