#present

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#culture #deprived #elevated #i #i see

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

#awaits #dominate #dream #existence #human

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#completely #conflict #control #dwelling #enjoy

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. ↗

— Robert Bork

#another #another way #basic #being #democracy

As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#commitment #education #hard #hard work #iowa

I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded. ↗

— Alton Brown

#basic #become #cooking #different #different angles

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#looks #personal #personal style #represents #style

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#anybody #belong #boy #genius #go

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#cause #go #present #present world #sought

Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom. ↗

— John Bright

#bill #carry #cities #double #effort