We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present.
Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.
Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.
Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.
If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.
Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.
The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.
I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.
