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The present day composer refuses to die.
Edgard Varese / Composer
Composer
Present Day
Refuse
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Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.
Mary Douglas / Anthropologist
Hierarchy
Present Day
Reviled
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Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.
Horace / Poet
Happy
Enjoy
Present Day
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Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.
Horace / Poet
Enjoy
Present Day
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One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion.
Kin Hubbard / Cartoonist
Entrepreneur
Opinion
Present Day
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Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.
Johann Most / Politician
Agitation
America
Anarchist
Country
Present Day
America More Country
Country America More
Fortunately
No Country
Suited
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The Bible never divorces the truth of Christ's future return with our present-day responsibilities.
Robert Jeffress / Pastor
Bible
Christ
Present Day
Return
Divorces
Responsibilities
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one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.
J. E. Buckrose / Author
Happiness
Present Day
Tendencies
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Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.
Martin Amis / Novelist
Arab World
Book
Past
Present Day
Spain
Years
Arab
In The Past
Translated
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Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.
Lynn Coady / Novelist
Dating
Interaction
Present Day
Unequal
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[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.
Donald Knuth / Computer Scientist
History
Algorithms
Present Day
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Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser / Artist
Art
Architecture
Doe
Long
Present Day
Considered
Exist
Planned
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Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
Anne Sullivan /
Education
Knowledge
Creative
Light
Present Day
Purpose
Spirited
Substance
Calls
Current
Innovations
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My first book, 'Contest,' had a guy fighting aliens in the New York Public Library. The second book, 'Ice Station,' and 'Temple' were present-day military thrillers.
Matthew Reilly / Writer
Ice
Present Day
Public Library
Alien
Contest
Temple
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People may assume 'The Act of Killing' is a historical documentary about what happened in 1965. But our purpose was to expose a present-day regime of fear for what it is.
Joshua Oppenheimer / Film Director
Present Day
Assume
Documentary
Expose
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It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.
William Labov / Professor
African American
Creation
Half
Inheritance
Present Day
Slavery
African
Appears
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My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.
Kenzaburo Oe / Author
Ambiguity
Country
Japan
Observation
Opening
Present Day
Years
Poles
Split
Twenty
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From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.
Lawrence Wright / Author
Auras
Management
Movement
Organization
Present Day
Secrecy
Aura
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Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.
George Pierce Baker /
Judging
Practice
Present Day
Standards
Broader
Shaped
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I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.
Aaron Ruell /
Present Day
Houses
Mix
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Human uploads have such a natural advantage over present-day people in the environment of space, it's exceedingly unlikely flesh-and-blood beings will ever engage in interstellar travel.
Frank Tipler /
Advantage
Present Day
Unlikely
Exceedingly
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And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
Present Day
Strong
Vietnamese
Almost
Chi
Nation
Imprint
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An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.
Jim C. Hines / Writer
Book
Fire
Present Day
Short Story
Writing
World Me Way
Named
Editor
Hughes
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There is credible evidence that a Chinese fleet went as far as the coast of Africa, in present-day Kenya. It was the largest maritime fleet in the world, under the command of Zheng He, a favorite of the emperor.
Russell Freedman / Author
Chinese
Coast
Credible
Emperor
Evidence
Maritime
Present Day
Fleet
Largest
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Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.
Gustav Stresemann / German Politician
British
Despite
England
Faults
Germany
Greatness
Present Day
Shapes
Worthiness
Loves
Germans
Helped
Insist
Recognize
Shape
Subject
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But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.
Gustav Stresemann / German Politician
Change
Haste
Nations
Present Day
Restlessness
Typical
Rapidly
Relationships
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I don't subscribe to the view that only puja numbers recorded during the '60s-'90s are enjoyed by the present-day listeners. Definitely the songs of that period are very popular even now, but the songs recorded afterwards are equally lapped up by the audience.
Jeet Gannguli /
Listeners
Present Day
Afterwards
Equally
Even Now
Subscribe
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Anyone who believes that it is possible to educate the will without cultivating the insight that enlivens it is succumbing to illusion. Clear-sightedness on this point is a task for present-day pedagogy, but it can come only from a life-filled understanding of the whole human being.
Rudolf Steiner / Philosopher
Cultivating
Insight
Present Day
Believes
Task
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For all the manufactured 'Republican versus Democrat' drama that dominates today's cable news and political rhetoric, the most striking feature of our present-day democracy is not partisan divide - it's a corrupt system that protects incumbents from the consequences that real democracy brings.
Letitia James /
Democrat
Present Day
Rhetoric
Versus
Consequences
Corrupt
Cable
Divide
Feature
Partisan
Protects
Striking
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With 'The Keep,' I began with a theory about pitting the isolated disconnection of the gothic realm against present-day hyperconnectedness. I emerged feeling that the gothic genre is all about hyperconnectedness - the possibility of disembodied communication - and that we now live in a kind of permanently gothic state.
Jennifer Egan / Novelist
Communication
Gothic
Isolated
Possibility
Present Day
Emerged
Permanently
Pitting
Realm
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I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times.
Alan Furst / Author
Biographies
Present Day
Time People Who
Afterwards
Autobiographies
Histories
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