#resent

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity. ↗

— Bette Midler

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Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

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Be present and in the moment. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#present

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. ↗

— Henry Miller

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I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

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Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that it's right. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

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In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence. ↗

— James Monroe

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Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty. ↗

— Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu

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