#present

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind. ↗

— Tom Wilson

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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation. ↗

— John M. Ford

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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings. ↗

— Robert Toombs

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I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is. ↗

— Donald Trump

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Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances. ↗

— Abraham Tucker

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And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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