Top 100 Quotes About Present Time

#1. Nothing lasts forever. But there is new life; new colours, fresh words, new tunes to compose. There is now; time present, time future. We build with new bricks and hope our voices are heard, our music is sung and our love cherished for as long as it is offered.

Carol Drinkwater

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#2. The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.

Jurgen Moltmann

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#3. From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.

George J. Mitchell

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#4. Women's bodies are public domain, as evidenced clearly at the present time by the furor over abortion. Everyone has an opinion about what a woman should or should not do with her body.

Maureen Murdock

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#5. It must also be noted that until the present time this malady, like religious controversy, has been wholly confined to the continent of Europe.

Voltaire

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#6. My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.

Amy Tan

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#7. Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

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#8. Mr. Upward italicises "at the present time" because he realises that you cannot, for instance, dismiss Hamlet on the ground that Shakespeare was not a Marxist.

George Orwell

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#9. You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.

L. Ron Hubbard

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#10. For the people whose minds are in the past, even a heavy rain cannot bring them to the present time!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#11. I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

George Eliot

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#12. Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

Horace

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#13. It's critical to God that we think about how we live, how we spend the present time with which we're gifted each day.

Craig Groeschel

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#14. The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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#15. The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

Victor Hugo

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#16. The fact that we have to fight for something so essential to life as the integrity of seeds, speaks to the real drama of this present time: that we have to fight to preserve what is most fundamental and sacred to life.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

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#17. Bear in Mind ... that all Histories from the Rock at Plymouth, and Jamestown to the present time, have been made by white men, and a man who tells his own story, is always right until the adversary's tale is told.

Sam Houston

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#18. What I am interested in is the present time.

Sophie Marceau

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#19. Experience each moment as if it were the first sensation of its kind ever. Bring childlike interest and curiosity to your present-time experience.

Noah Levine

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#20. Work is an anchor; it prevents the undisciplined minds drifting to the past. It keeps them in the present time.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#21. You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.

Hans Blix

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#22. Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!

Caroline Myss

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#23. The river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once, and that there is only the present time for it, not the shadow of the past, not the shadow of the future.

Hermann Hesse

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#24. One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

Ellen Swallow Richards

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#25. The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.

Josiah Royce

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#26. In the present time you don't really establish what you're going through, but after time it's declared something. Right now there could be some writers doing something expressing their thoughts in a whole different style that we're not aware of. This could be the 'in-between the notes generation.'

Garrett Hedlund

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#27. Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.

Joseph Smith Jr.

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#28. The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking upon himself superhuman authority, which will eventually crush him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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#29. He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

Jules Michelet

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#30. This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.

Origen

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#31. Are you afraid of the future? That is funny because future does not exist yet! Future is not even a shadow, because shadow exists! Let go your fear and concentrate on the present time!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#32. 105. I congratulate myself on not having arrived into this world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

Ovid

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#33. This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the so-called 'German princes' is just as miserable as that of the Jews themselves. These lords were really God's punishment for their beloved peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the present time.

Adolf Hitler

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#34. We are entirely dependent upon the spirit of inspiration, and if there ever was a time, since Adam occupied the Garden of Eden, when the Spirit of God was more needed than at the present time, I am not aware of it.

Lorenzo Snow

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#35. All the action, in semiconductors at the present time is in the new consumer applications, and that's where we have focused our activities since we started doing our own products in the late '90s.

David Milne

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#36. When he had brushed a thin coat of dust off the pebbled leather cover of one volume, he saw the words: Register of All Wizards and Warlocks of the South Kingdom and of the North Kingdom from the Beginning of the World to the Present Time.

John Bellairs

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#37. To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.

George William Norris

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#38. The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

Samuel Johnson

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#39. In the beauty of the mornings we forget about the night; in the beauty of the night we forget about the mornings! When you meet the beauty, you drop anchor in the present time and all other times disappear from your mind!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#40. To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#41. Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

William Temple

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#42. Human megalomania will have suffered its third and most wounding blow from the psychological research of the present time which seeks to prove to the ego that it is not even master in its own house, but must content itself with scanty information of what is going on unconsciously in its mind.

Sigmund Freud

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#43. The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#44. Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

Jane Austen

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#45. I've never been more bummed walking out of a movie and back into present time than after seeing 'Midnight in Paris.

Gregor Collins

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#46. With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

Jean-Baptiste Say

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#47. Intellect without humanity is not good enough ... what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

Ashley Montagu

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#48. I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us. Romans 8:18

Beth Moore

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#49. To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

Mark Twain

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#50. The evil is in the White House at the present time.

Tip O'Neill

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#51. The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects of film which were to be informative and educational and even spiritual.

Brian Cox

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#52. You are now old enough to know how very important to your future life will be the manner in which you employ your present time

Jon Meacham

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#53. I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

Adam Osborne

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#54. We have to be in the present time, because only the present is real, only in the present can we be alive. We do not practice for the sake of the future, to be reborn in a paradise, but to be peace, to be compassion, to be joy right now.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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#55. The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

Charles Caleb Colton

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#56. I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.

Claes Oldenburg

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#57. Does it seem strange in the loneliness of the present time, that I run to you? ...

John Geddes

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#58. I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

Edward Everett

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#59. At the present time he was a man of perhaps forty-five years of age, short and heavy-set, with a bullet-shaped head that rested on broad, ape-like shoulders. His thick torso and bulging paunch were supported by a pair of spindly legs that contrasted oddly with the upper portions of his beefy body.

H.P. Lovecraft

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#60. When your energy is not in present time, you don't have the energy to fuel your body-mind. To be able to heal your body, you need to have a large percentage of your energy in present time. This explains partially why some people are able to heal themselves quickly and others are not.

Candess M. Campbell

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#61. If there were events earlier than this time, then they could not affect what happens at the present time. Their existence can be ignored because it would have no observational consequences.

Stephen Hawking

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#62. I will be glad to discuss this proposition with my attorney, and that after I talk with one, we could either discuss it with him or discuss it with my attorney, if the attorney thinks it is a wise thing to do, but at the present time I have nothing more to say to you.

Lee Harvey Oswald

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#63. It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time

Michel Foucault

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#64. Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

Horace Mann

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#65. I don't know about you, but I believe that in our present time we are definitely shaking things up with human fate in this world.

Kat Lahr

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#66. What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time.

Vaclav Klaus

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#67. The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

Thomas Carlyle

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#68. At the present time, the alternative is not between change or no change, but between change for the better and change for the worse.

C. H. Douglas

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#69. Naked greed has been the moving spirit of civilization from the first day of its existence to the present time; wealth, more wealth, and wealth again; wealth not of society, but of this shabby individual was its sole and determining aim.

Friedrich Engels

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#70. It is well for us that we live at the present time, when everybody is logical and consistent.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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#71. And a respectable man must be a coward and a slave not only at the present time, owing to some accidental circumstances, but generally in all periods of time. That's a law of nature for all respectable people on earth.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#72. Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

Antony Gormley

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#73. At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.

Howard Aiken

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#74. THRILLING NARRATIVES OF MUTINY, MURDER AND PIRACY, A WEIRD SERIES OF Tales of Shipwreck and Disaster, FROM THE EARLIEST PART OF THE CENTURY TO THE PRESENT TIME, WITH ACCOUNTS OF Providential Escapes AND HEART-RENDING FATALITIES.

Anonymous

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#75. For the present time, just do your job well

Sunday Adelaja

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#76. I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.

Danny Masterson

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#77. This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat.

Karl Liebknecht

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#78. The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.

Caroline Myss

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#79. The future is keeping you out of the present time.

Van Morrison

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#80. By losing present time, we lose all time.

William Gurney Benham

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#81. Though we must hold to our faith in the evolution of species, there is little evidence as to how it has come about, and no clear proof that the process is continuing in any considerable degree at the present time.

William Bateson

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#82. At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.

Ben Nicholson

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#83. Do not lose power over the what-ifs of your life. These are unlimited and endless. Keep your power in the now, in present time.

Gary Zukav

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#84. I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!

Jonathan Coe

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#85. Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.

Casey Stengel

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#86. There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

Arthur Erickson

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#87. In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.

Al Alvarez

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#88. The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history.

Pyotr Kropotkin

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#89. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either.

Joseph Smith Jr.

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#90. And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.

Hu Shih

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#91. We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.

John Dewey

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#92. From the day of Pentecost until the present time, it has been necessary to be of one accord in prayer before the Spirit of God will work with mighty converting power.

John Mott

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#93. I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.

Franz Boas

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#94. I CANNOT READILY DIFFERENTIATE FACT FROM SUPERSTITION. IN FACT, THERE SEEMS TO BE VERY LITTLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO AT THE PRESENT TIME. IT IS VERY SILLY THAT IT SHOULD BE SO - NOT TO MENTION RUDE - AND I AM SURE IT HAS CONTRIBUTED TO MY OWN SPIRITUAL MALAISE.

Stephen King

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#95. We act by virtue of what we recognize as beneficial. At the present time, negation is the most beneficial of all - and we deny.

Ivan Turgenev

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#96. Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.

Marcus Aurelius

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#97. Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.

Louise Hay

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#98. To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.

Phil Anselmo

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#99. 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

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#100. It must be asked here: why does the patient go on being worried by this that belongs to the past? The answer must be that the original experience of primitive agony cannot get into the past tense unless the ego can first gather it into its own present time experience ... .

Mark Epstein

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