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“I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.”

Firsts Sometimes Moments Bigs Seems America Waiting Sea Ocean Currents Storm Arise Formidable

Author:Jacques Maritain

“However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the plain of History and of our lives, in the eternal 'current situation.' He goes on talking, calmly or passionately. He goes on talking about something simple: his revolutionary practice, the practice of class struggle, about what makes it possible to act on history...not to demonstrate that revolutions are inevitable, but to make them in our unique present.”

“The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.”

Way Constitution Crisis Currents

Author:Abhisit Vejjajiva

“The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.”

Political Serious Election Currents Tension Boycott

Author:Abhisit Vejjajiva

“Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country [i.e. Iran] after the fall of the current system [of the Shah].”

Country Running Age Desire Fall Roles Currents Iran Personal Desire

Author:Ruhollah Khomeini

“After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.”

World Want Whole Situation Clear Currents Chess Current Situation

Author:Anatoly Karpov

“We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.”

Plans Currents Troops Going To Work July Snowball

Author:Arlen Specter

“In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity - and it was an atrocity.”

“Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.”

Ifs World Needs Should Whole Practice Currents Conviction Defense Whole World Our Time Delusion Stand Alone Vaccinations Conscientious Objectors

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This energy is released into the ether each night, as the mind falls into the sleep state. Each morning it returns to the conscious state reinforced with the cosmic currents. That which has been imaged will surely and certainly be manifested. You can rely, young man, upon this ageless promise as surely as you can rely upon the eternally unbroken promise of sunrise... and of Spring.”

“We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas.”

Known Land Position Currents Reform Farmers Sanctions

Author:Robert Mugabe

“All of my unconscious fears were in my face about letting go of the current identity. A lot of the thoughts that came up were fear-based and false, so I had to work to let them go.”

Faces Identity Letting Go Currents Unconscious

Author:Alanis Morissette

“In a way, the great thing about Batman is that there are so many of him that you can usually find one you like. Often, it's the one that was current when you began following the character. But though you like the Batman of one decade, you may well despise (and not recognize the validity of) the Batman of some other decade. If you've been a fan of the character for forty years, you probably hate half of them.”

Ifs Way Years Wells May Character Hate Half Fans Currents Following Decades Great Things Forty Despise Validity

Author:Mark Evanier

“Basically I just had to say, 'Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music.' So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.”

Thinking Important Play Bigs Song Felt Fingers Currents Trends Screws Wizardry

Author:Kirk Hammett

“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.”

People Force Creative Strange Listening Tired Currents Strange Things Nonviolent Communication Magnetic Listening To Others

Book:Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings

Source: Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings

“If we're going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can't just conserve our way out. We can't just drill our way out. We can't bomb our way out. We're going to do it the old-fashioned, American way. We're going to invent our way out, working together.”

Ifs Way Country Inspiration Together Political Motivation Energy Situation Election Currents Bombs Working Together Old Fashioned Drills Election Day

Author:Donald Sadoway

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”

Source: Life and death in a coral sea

“Your current conditions do not reflect your ultimate potential, but rather the size and quality of goals upon which you currently are focusing.”

Goal Quality Focus Conditions Ultimate Size Currents Focus On Goals

Author:Tony Robbins

“Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.”

Beautiful Currents Bliss Mutual Coins

Author:John Milton

“Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand.”

People Matter Hands Attention Situation Creative Currents Fascinated Creative People Current Situation

Author:Abraham Maslow

“Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.”

Looks Ideas Able Black Influence Events Criticism Currents Rap Rapper Aspire Ghetto Esoteric Current Events Old Ideas Containment Black Ghetto

Author:Saul Williams

“I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current.”

Christian Found Lays Bottom Currents Christian Inspirational Boat Floats Oar

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults and threats, all of which are propped up by the repeated narrative now that women are 'playing the gender card'. And this is the final insult. That of all the unfair things associated with women - the violence and insults, the financial oppression, the very undermining of our worth as human beings - it is the acknowledgement of these inequalities that gives us some kind of unfair advantage over the men who benefit from them.”

“The content of your thoughts and personal beliefs can be proven by a single indicator - your current results.”

Belief Results Exercise Currents Proven Indicators Personal Beliefs

Author:James Arthur Ray

“In fact, even the current administration now is releasing recent reports indicating that climate change is real, that global warming is occurring, that it is heavily influenced by man-made objects and that it is something we cannot ignore any longer.”

Men Made Real Facts Objects Climate Climate Change Currents Administration Reports Global Warming

Author:Ron Kind

“Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.”

Addiction Climate Change Currents Denial Fuel Fossils Fossil Fuel

Book:Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

Source: Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

“Women should have labels on their foreheads saying, 'Government Health Warning: women can seriously damage your brains, genitals, current account, confidence, razor blades, and good standing among your friends'.”

Should Government Women Brain Standing Should Have Accounts Currents Labels Damage Warning Blades Foreheads Razors

Author:Jeffrey Bernard

“I want you to take a moment here and write down all the problems that are plaguing you at this moment, from big to small. Now ask yourself what you contributed in creating your current situation. Did the professor fail you because you never went to class? Did your boss yell at you because you were on YouTube instead of working?”

Want Writing Moments Problem Bigs Motivational Asks Situation Class Failing Creating Currents Boss Professors I Want You Youtube Current Situation

Book:Unlimited: A Three-Step Plan for Achieving Your Dreams

Source: Unlimited: A Three-Step Plan for Achieving Your Dreams

“It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism.”

People Thinking Want States Film Fun Pure Climate Currents Entertainment Escapism

Author:Sienna Miller

“If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire.”

Ifs Men Seems Might Spiritual Form Cities Information Currents Ancestor Translate Translations Suitable Nomadic

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.”

Should May Ideas Helping Spiritual Support Currents Symbols Ritual Openness Construction Spiritual Life Creeds

Book:The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

“What's curious about the left's current obsession with Timothy McVeigh is that it proves that - despite a frantic search for 15 years - liberals have come across no better evidence of burgeoning "right-wing extremist" violence than a drug-taking, self-described "agnostic" who was thrown out of the Michigan Militia and who proclaimed, "Science is my religion." That sounds more like Bill Maher than Rush Limbaugh.”

Years Self Political Left Sound Violence Drug Prove Evidence Bills Wings Currents Obsession Despite Curious Thrown Agnostic Right Wing Extremist Michigan Militia Frantic Drug Taking

Author:Ann Coulter

“He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.”

Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry

“Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.”

People Needs Children Taken Rights Adults Currents My Children Adoption

Book:Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community, 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community, 10th Anniversary Edition

“The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.”

“In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight. The same sort of coiling, at a cooler, slower pace, is what the life of this planet looks like. The enormous spirals of typhoons, the twists and turns of mountain ranges and gorges, the waves and the deep ocean currents - a dragonlike writhing.”

Source: A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds

“So I am deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislation that is now in place against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community here in Russia. In my opinion, it is inhumane and it is isolating.”

Community Opinion Gay Currents Russia Lgbt Legislation Shocked Transgender Bisexual Saddened Inhumane

Author:Elton John

“The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension.”

Ifs Needs Reality Would Be Action Moving Energy Vision Creative Source Currents Tension Gaps Creative Tension

Author:Peter Senge

“In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality.”

Way Reality Easy Difficult Challenges Vision Currents Difficult Challenges Clarifying

Author:Peter Senge

“If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?”

Ifs Men Helping Rivers Currents Helping Others Buddhist Carried Away Swollen Real Buddhist

Author:Gautama Buddha

“To survive, you had to steer your course midstream, where the water was deepest and ran fastest, that you had to paddle fast, as fast as you could to stay there to stay still in the rushing current because the price of failure was to be washed up on the beach or dashed to pieces on the wharves.”

Stills Courses Water Pieces Failure Currents Beach Ran Rushing Steers

Book:Hopping

Source: Hopping

“At the beach, life is different. Time doesn't move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun.”

“The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.”

Men Doe Suffering Views Theory Depends Holy Remains Currents Sects Holy Man

Author:Gautama Buddha

“My current fear is that the message being sent by the level of vitriol surrounding Gillard's flawed leadership (but tell me whose wasn't flawed) is being heard by Australian women and girls loud and clear. And the message is: 'Don't aspire to high office,sweetheart, because we'll flay you alive.'”

Girl Leadership Levels Clear Alive Heard Office Messages Currents Loud Aspire Flawed Australian Sweetheart

Author:Jane Caro

“Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does.”

Doe Country Form Democracy Benefits Expectations Currents Expected Developing Globalization Civil Society Developing Countries Millennium Development Goals

Author:Martin Khor

“The big damages come if the climate sensitivity to greenhouse gases turns out to be high causing greater global warming than current projections. Then it's not a bullet headed at us, but a thermonuclear warhead.”

Ifs Bigs Turns Greater Climate Climate Change Currents Damage Global Warming Bullets Sensitivity Projection Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Causes Of Global Warming

Author:Raymond Pierrehumbert

“When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors to concoct a series of positions deliberately designed to weaken America, they would be hard pressed to beat the current GOP dogma - hobble education, starve the government by slashing taxes to the rich, kneecap attempts to jumpstart the economy by fixating on debt, invite corporations to dominate political discourse, balkanize the population by demonizing minorities and immigrants and let favored religions dictate social policy.”

“This is a timely and relevant initiative. The environmental challenges facing Singapore and the region are becoming more complex. Tackling them will require inter-disciplinary approaches combined with a good understanding of science, economics and governance aspects. The NUS Bachelor of Environment programme will fill a much needed gap in the current framework. NEA is pleased to be a partner to this programme.”

“There are no 'holds.' Everyday you're either willing to buy more at the current price, or, if you aren't, you should redeploy the capital to something you believe does deserve incremental capital.”

Ifs Should Believe Doe Willing Deserve Everyday Currents

Author:Lee Ainslie

“Inspiration is really all around us. I pay attention to a lot of different fields. I stay up on current events. I go to community meetings to see what concerns the people in my neighborhood. Paying attention to social interactions offline really inform interactions online. The real world is a bottomless source of inspiration for what you can build.”

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