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• If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it.

  Walter Russell

  Tired, Thinking, Sick

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• It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.

  John Dewey

  Weed, Intelligent, Giving

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.227, SIU Press

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• It will come all right in the end. There is the steady impulse of your determination that sets you on your feet again after every downfall and breakdown. Gradually the obstacles are all overcome and your current becomes stronger. Everything comes right in the end. Steady determination is what is required.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Determination, Feet, Stronger

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years, and he could have it earlier.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Years

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 13, 2005.

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• When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years

  Carl Levin

  War, Impact, Years

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• The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Artist, Media, Perception

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position.

  Allan Nevins

  Wind, Confusion, History

  Allan Nevins (1962). “The Gateway to History”

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• Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign rules. Thus, each one of us becomes the financial slave, which is to say a true slave.

  Thomas Sankara

  Growth, Development, Debt

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• The current days of the Internet will soon be over.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Internet

  " News Corp will charge for newspaper websites, says Rupert Murdoch" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2009.

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• We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

  William J. Brennan

  Justice, Way, Constitution

  "The Constitution of the United States: Contemporary Ratification" (speech),Washington, D.C., 12 Oct. 1985

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• Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel. The gospel is the life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than a diamond. It's depths man will never exhaust.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Men, Depth, World

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• France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.

  Francois Hollande

  Views, United States, May

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• I'm not sure that the current value of the NASDAQ is justified, but I'm not sure that it isn't.

  Paul Krugman

  Justified, Not Sure, Values

  Paul Krugman (2004). “The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

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• How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.

  Steve Sailer

  Racism, Eras, Logical

  "Banned by Free Republic?". www.vdare.com. January 03, 2001.

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• The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.

  Michiko Kakutani

  Art, Redemption, Crafts

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• Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class-involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing-are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.

  Maurice Strong

  Food, Home, Air

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• Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Yards, Events

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.120, Crown Archetype

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• The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.

  Paul Gillmor

  Creating, Issues, Community

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• I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.

  Richard Bach

  Letting Go, Boredom, Clinging

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• It seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing assumptions that are unsupported, and that it flies in the face of common sense.

  Thomas Nagel

  Order, Common Sense, Orthodoxy

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality, then perhaps we could all agree on a meta-agreement for computing a reality that would mean survival and dignity for everyone on the planet, rather than each group being sold on a particular way of doing things.

  Francisco Varela

  Mean, Reality, Agreement

  "The Coevolution quarterly". "The Coevolution quarterly", Nr. 8-12, p. 31, ed. Anne Waldman, 1975.

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• As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe marijuana is the most effective drug in combating their medical ailments, I would caution against this assumption due to the lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data available to prove marijuana's benefits. Based on current evidence, I believe that marijuana is a dangerous drug and that there are less dangerous medicines offering the same relief from pain and other medical symptoms.

  Bill Frist

  Pain, Believe, Marijuana

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• Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem

  Geraldo Rivera

  Reality, Israel, Expansion

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• I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.

  Erma Bombeck

  Weekend, Pie, Pecans

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