How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.
The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.” (Analects 2.11)
Yesterday was the last day on the calender of the past. Tomorrow will be the first day on the calender of the future. Today is both the first and the last day of the present. Use it well.
The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.
Don't wait till tomorrow to achieve your goals, live in the present and look forward to the future. Forget yesterday and start living today.
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.
Forgive the past and let it go with great gratitude. It will allow us to embrace present and future with love, enthusiasm and passion.
During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their time and attention.
A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.
When preparing a presentation, it’s never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you’re focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.
Often the deep valleys of our present will be understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future experience.
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.
We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two.
It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.
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