#present

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

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Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. ↗

— Michael Caine

#because #bloody #comedy #difficult #every

And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#another #calling #cannot #employment #how

Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices. ↗

— Fred Upton

#arrogance #common #common sense #display #listening

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

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#dividing #domain #eternity #hope #part

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

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change. ↗

— Les Brown

#beyond #cannot #change #circumstances #expect

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. ↗

— Pam Brown

#calls #completely #drying #every #just