Currents Quotes - Page 3

• Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.

  Minor White

  Moving, Way, Sometimes

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• Of these five vital principles, Love is the foremost. It is Love that flows as the under-current for the other four values. How does it flow this way? When Love is associated with our thoughts, it manifests itself as Truth. When Love is associated with feelings, it produces Peace. When Love animates actions, it results in Right Action. When Love is combined with understanding it becomes Non-violence. Therefore whenever you feel angry, think of love, develop thoughts of love in your heart. You will have peace.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Heart, Love Is, Thinking

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• People (a group that in my opinion has always attracted an undue amount of attention) have often been likened to snowflakes. This analogy is meant to suggest that each is unique - no two alike. This is quite patently not the case. People, even at the current rate of inflation - in fact, people especially at the current rate of inflation - are quite simply a dime a dozen. And, I hasten to add, their only similarity to snowflakes resides in their invariably and lamentable tendency to turn, after a few warm days, to slush.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Unique, Two, People

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.197, Vintage

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• What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot to-day? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they do nothing in earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy the evil, that they may no longer have it to regret. At most, they give only a cheap vote, and a feeble countenance and Godspeed, to the right, as it goes by them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Regret, Men, Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Civil Disobedience and Other Essays”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.

  Douglas A. Blackmon

  Black, Depth, Connections

  Douglas A. Blackmon (2012). “Slavery by Another Name: The re-enslavement of black americans from the civil war to World War Two”, p.381, Icon Books

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• Donald Trump said he will not decide about a possible run for the presidency until after the current season of Celebrity Apprentice wraps up. Say what you want about Trump, at least this guy has his priorities in order. He doesn't want to let actual reality get in the way of his reality show.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Reality, Order

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• The fastest way to bring financial ruin upon yourself is to go for a drive in the United States without proof of insurance and current license and registration.

  Hank Stuever

  United States, Way, Ruins

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. October 29, 2015.

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• The whole struggle of our Party (and of the working class movement in Europe generally) must be directed against opportunism. The latter is not a current of opinion, not a tendency; it (opportunism) has now become the organised tool of the bourgeoisie within the working class movement.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Party, Struggle, Europe

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• The producer beating a new path for himself through the wilderness is going to do the thing 'differently,' of course. But after a while, he looks about him. The territory is unfamiliar, the forest ahead forbidding. Just how 'different' dare he be? He looks at his resources, and then at the established successes of the past. He suddenly realizes he must play safe, be sure. The unknown is a gamble; the known isn't-at least comparatively. The safest plan, obviously, is to follow the trailblazers. So he produces an imitation of one of the current successes. Usually it is a mediocre imitation.

  Irving Thalberg

  Past, Play, Path

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• First of all, I - right after September the 11th, I knew we were fighting a different kind of war. . . . And the people responsible for helping us protect and defend came forth with the current program, because it enables us to move faster and quicker. And that's important. We've got to be fast on our feet, quick to detect and prevent. . . .

  George W. Bush

  War, Moving, Fighting

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• Your current situation does not determine your future. Your future is determined by your decision to succeed.

  Tony Robbins

  Decision, Doe, Succeed

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• Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.

  Bill Gates

  School, Technology, Years

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• You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Problem, Results

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• Time magazine interviewed Bill Clinton about the current presidential campaign, and he claimed he had to ask Hillary to marry him three times before she said yes. Then Hillary was like, 'Yeah. That wasn't me.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Presidential, Three, Campaigns

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• Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state.

  Patri Friedman

  Political, Democracy, Libertarian

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• If [YouTube] were to switch to Theora and maintain even a semblance of the current YouTube quality it would take up most available bandwidth across the internet.

  Chris DiBona

  Quality, Internet, Youtube

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• I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This may be partly owing to the incessant current of new matter flowing constantly through it; but I ascribe to years their share in it also.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Memories, Years, Faithful

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.403

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• I'm looking forward to the day when my country is saved - and the current winner becomes a loser.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Looking Forward, Loser

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• We do not have many women leaders in the world. But if you look at the current examples, most of those few female leaders that we have today lead their countries under the pressure of difficult political and economic circumstances. They all posses strong personalities and have real political influence on the domestic and international scene.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Country, Strong, Real

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• According to a CNN poll, Trump nearly doubled his support from March. Actually, he just combed his March numbers over his current ones.

  Conan O'Brien

  Numbers, Cnn, Support

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• Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Teacher, School, Soul

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 11, 2017

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• The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values.

  David Korten

  Community, Levels, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Nakamura Tempu Sensei viewed the mind as a segment of the body that could not be seen and the body as the element of the mind that was observable. He also likened the mind and body to a stream, with the mind as the source flowing down to the body. Whatever we drop in the stream will be carried down by the current. In like manner, our thoughts will influence the body and our well being.

  H. E Davey

  Mind, Body, Elements

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• It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current President....Bush goes bumbling along, grinning and spewing moronic one-liners, as though nobody understands what a colossal failure he has been....I fear to the depth of my being that John McCain is just like him.

  Jack Cafferty

  President, Depth, One Liner

  "Current Wisdom", spectator.org. August 19, 2008.

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• I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue.

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Ambition, Names

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