#present

To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#country #earlier #focus #get #getting

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them. ↗

— David Ricardo

#cultivation #gradually #import #lands #left

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#die #diseases #little #past #present

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees. ↗

— Earl Warren

#legislatures #people #represent #trees

I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#album #contributions #coverage #four #freely

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#class #concepts #descriptive #discussing #faculties

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#certain way #dress #everyone #fit #into

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it. ↗

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

#brought #forward #founded #itself #past

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#desecration #doing #emblem #flag #freedom

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present. ↗

— David R. Brower

#brings #countries #earth #found #friends