#sent

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it. ↗

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

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People are essentially red meat. They are. ↗

— Max Cannon

#meat #people #red #red meat

If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present. ↗

— Claus von Stauffenberg

#been #could #general #had #high

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#essential #experience #get #opposite #person

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live. ↗

— Gerard Depardieu

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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#excuse #fault #never #nor #present

I was lucky enough to have a loving present father in my family. ↗

— David Duke

#family #father #i #loving #lucky

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#idea #long #men #oppose #powerless

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#countenance #double #gift #kind #present

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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