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“Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.”
William James quotes (American Philosopher and Psychologist, leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism, 1842-1910)
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“There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“labor not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was”
Akhenaton quotes (King of Egypt, 14th century BC)
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“In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
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“The Greek grasped the present moment, and was the artist; the Jew worshipped the timeless spirit, and was the prophet”
Isaac Mayer Wise quotes (American Rabbi whose goal of uniting American Jewry made him the greatest organizer of Reform Jewish institutions in the United States. 1819-1900)

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“There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.”
Joseph Addison quotes (English Essayist, Poet, Dramatist and Statesman, 1672-1719)

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“I certainly hope to sell in the course of time, but I think I shall be able to influence it most effectively by working steadily on, and that at the present moment making desperate efforts to force the work I am doing now upon the public would be pretty useless.”
santiz Vincent van Gogh quotes (Dutch Painter, one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, 1853-1890)

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“There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.”
Ezra Pound quotes (American Editor, Poet, Translator and Critic, 1885-1972)

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“At the present moment, in the prevailing situation, what is most essential is the cultivation of love. Losing love mankind has lost its humanness.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba quotes (Indian Spiritual leader, b.1926)

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