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“The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The memory of it is interwoven with that of our arduous struggle for national existence. Weakened as it has occasionally been since that time, it can by us never be forgotten, and we should hail with exultation the moment which should indicate a recollection equally friendly in spirit on the part of France.”

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future) a relation to the past to be ignored at one's peril. Sex no longer withdraws its partners, if only for a moment, from the social. It cannot be considered just a coupling; it is a chain, a chain of transmission, from the past.”

Ifs Moments Past Social Sex Creation Pure Ideals Relation Aids Partners Chains Ignored Peril Transmission Coupling

Author:Susan Sontag

“A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out. This amounts to saying:;: try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.”

Knows Trying Ideas War Moments Helping Political Moral Break Amount Relation International Arise Sentiments International Relations Break Out Obtaining

Book:Precepts and Judgments

Source: Precepts and Judgments

“Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even if it enters into the fabric of our personal relations to reality with at least as much force, relevance, and moment as things which are seen to be there.”

Ifs Moments Reality Force Conscious Relation Chairs Fabric Desks Relevance Apprehension

Book:A Second Collection

Source: A Second Collection

“When one existentially awakens from within, the relation of birth-and-death is not seen as a sequential change from the former to the latter. Rather, living as it is, is no more than dying, and at the same time there is no living separate from dying. This means that life itself is death and death itself is life. That is, we do not shift sequentially from birth to death, but undergo living-dying in each and every moment.”

Mean Moments Dying Birth Relation Former Latter Birth And Death

Book:A Study of Dogen: His Philosophy and Religion

Source: A Study of Dogen: His Philosophy and Religion

“Now, for the moment, we are safe. The only kind of international violence that worries most people in the developed countries is terrorism: from imminent heart attack to a bad case of hangnail in fifteen years flat. We are very lucky people--but we need to use the time we have been granted wisely, because total war is only sleeping. All the major states are still organized for war, and all that is needed for the world to slide back into a nuclear confrontation is a twist of the kaleidoscope that shifts international relations into a new pattern of rival alliances.”

“We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.”

Moments Together Darkness Relation Wander This Life Features Companion Flash Lightning Remarks Neighbour Human Relations Life Together

Book:Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology

Source: Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology

“Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.”

Humans Kind Long Moments Lasts Values Marriage Relation Betrayal Boredom Resentment Equilibrium Human Relations Long Marriage

Book:The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty

Source: The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty