#present

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#audience #biological #book #broad #creation

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish. ↗

— Flip Wilson

#birthday #box #childhood #cracker #ever

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil. ↗

— George Whitefield

#darts #devil #discourse #feeling #fiery

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#nothing #platter #presented #really #silver

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#degraded #despise #enjoy #freedom #last

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention. ↗

— Francis Wright

#bounds #contention #error #ever #facts

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#ever #hope #lies #moving #present

Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#aspects #each #hence #meet #naturally

Thank you for the confidence put in my by the motherland and the people, for giving me this chance to represent China's millions of women by going into space. ↗

— Liu Yang

#china #confidence #giving #going #into

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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