#resent

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#american #american dream #came #concrete #dream

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#milieu #national #present #self-defense #wars

We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#council #credibility #legitimacy #main #member

A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.' ↗

— Norman Lindsay

#below #creatures #exposed #goes #had

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#any #arrogance #been #claim #extraordinary

I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#am #colleagues #elementary #feel #fraternity

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future. ↗

— George Herbert Mead

#events #experience #future #however #including

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present. ↗

— John Naisbitt

#future #most #present #reliable #try

The only true experience is of the immediate present ↗

— Sylvia Clare

#present #experience

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude. ↗

— Alexandra Kerry

#chooses #composition #course #devoid #emotions