#resent

Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that. ↗

— Hart Crane

#cultural #development #doubt #epic #foundation

The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use. ↗

— Nicholas Culpeper

#because #best #best way #come #dry

In my years of public service at both the federal and state levels, I have had the privilege of representing most of the communities that make up Congressional District 21, including Hialeah, Westchester, Doral, Kendall, Miami Lakes, Hialeah Gardens, Medley and Palmetto Bay. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#both #communities #congressional #congressional district #district

What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#determine #does #feel #how #media

The present danger which this country faces is at least as great as the danger which we faced during the war with Germany and Japan. Briefly stated, it is the very real danger that this country, as we know it, may cease to exist. ↗

— James Forrestal

#cease #cease to exist #country #danger #during

If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor. ↗

— Robert Chambers

#courtesy #demand #demeanor #equal #how

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#author #avoid #being #course #day

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#creations #culturally #economically #generation #language

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#beauty #edge #evidence #high #high art

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present. ↗

— Sally Field

#behavior #habitual #here #lose #now