#sent

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable. ↗

— George Ade

#preferable #presents #were #would

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#god #highest #latest #man #present

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#character #easily #form #individual #nature

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#brain #dependent #eternal #evidence #hard

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#eventually #germany #i #paris #sent

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#become #cannot #controlling #desire #dominant

These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things. ↗

— Tom Allen

#been #bills #borrowing #cuts #essentially

Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky. ↗

— Lizz Winstead

#how #i #life #lucky #me

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it. ↗

— Sparky Anderson

#compete #faults #future #generally #got

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things. ↗

— Tadao Ando

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