#presents

I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in trillions rather than in billions. And I think that represents a long-term danger, especially to the, the American dream. ↗

— Mark Kirk

#american dream #billions #chart #danger #debt

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

#creative #dynamic #effects #genuine #however

It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar. ↗

— Greg LeMond

#into #liar #problem #professional #represents

The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#capital #capital investment #cattle #cow #fertile

Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves and, most importantly, to our children. ↗

— Dalton McGuinty

#cosmetic #dangers #fully #generation #i

The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#canal #communicating #digestive #entire #external

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#delivered #down #generation #genius #great

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#catastrophes #destroyed #itself #past #presents

Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#challenges #comes #desire #doing #great

Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#aware #built #centuries #environment #everyone