quotes about Currents
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The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.
-- Abhisit Vejjajiva -
Only everybody-all-a t-once can change the current chaos.
-- Adi Da -
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
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There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
Things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.
-- Andrew DavidsonSource : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.143, Canongate Books
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It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.
-- Angela Merkel -
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One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
-- Anish Kapoor -
We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.
-- Arlen Specter -
Obviously the current approach on ***** both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.
-- Armand Hammer -
Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.
-- Asger Jorn -
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What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.
-- Benjamin Bloom -
You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
-- Benjamin WalkerSource : "Interview: Benjamin Walker and the cast of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson". Interview with Sharon Steel, www.timeout.com. November 5, 2010.
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To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.
-- Brand BlanshardSource : Brand Blanshard (2014). “Reason and Analysis”, p.493, Routledge
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Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel.
-- C. J. Mahaney -
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There's a spiritual current in my work because there's a spiritual current in my life.
-- Carrie NewcomerSource : "Carrie Newcomer: On spirituality, music and a playlist". Interview with Hannah Heinzekehr, themennonite.org. August 18, 2017.
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He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.
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Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly contradict IBM's current public posturing.
-- Darl McBride -
History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate.
-- David Brin -
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There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.
-- David Korten -
What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.
-- David Maister -
In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.
-- David Perlmutter -
The path to added muscle is consuming more calories than the amount needed to keep your current bodyweight unchanged.
-- Dorian Yates -
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Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear the currents of Alice Notley, of Bernadette Mayer, of Eileen Myles, and Sylvia Plath
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There was never a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.
-- Edgar Dale -
The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.
-- Emma Bonino -
You will not experience all life has to offer you or begin to experience life at its fullest as long as you are satisfied with mediocrity. You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.
-- Eric Thomas -
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You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.
-- Eric Thomas -
O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.
-- Fanny Burney -
I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time
-- Franz Boas -
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature
-- George Ade -
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When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.
-- Gerry Mulligan -
It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.
-- Ha-Joon Chang -
Diplomacy is the only clear answer to the current situation. There is no legal basis for referring Iran to the Security Council. But if that were to happen Iran is not afraid.
-- Hamid-Reza Assefi -
I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
-- Hank Azaria -
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The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance.
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The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current...
-- Henry GirouxSource : "Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism". Book by Henry Giroux, www.alternet.org. 2011.
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Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did
-- Irving Kahn -
The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.
-- Isaac Mayer Wise -
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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
-- Jack Kingston -
Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.
-- Jalal Talabani -
Current education policy is not in the interests of women. An injustice is being perpetrated.
-- James Tooley -
Firstly, the current government officials are in power for their currency, but I'm informing you for your new currency.
-- Jared Lee Loughner -
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Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.
-- Jared Spool -
Those are some strong currents you're swimming against.
-- Jay Asher -
If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.
-- Jay Inslee -
I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.
-- Jess Walter -
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A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable.
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Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself
-- John Dewey -
The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and 62.
-- John Engler -
Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.
-- John Kennedy Toole -
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
-- John Locke -
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
-- Julian Casablancas -
Learning unconditional love helped me have healthier relationships, including my current marriage.
-- Karrine Steffans -
You can’t let your current circumstances dictate what kind of choices you make.
-- Kelly Clark -
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I am not against all wars-just whichever is current.
-- Ken Gillespie -
You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.
-- Kris KristoffersonSource : "Kris Kristofferson: What I've Learned" by Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
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I don't dream a lot. But whenever I dream, I just dream about the day I just had or something like that. Mostly that's what I dream about. I dream about that current day. Other than that, I don't dream a lot.
-- Lil Wayne -
I am as close to changing my life as my current positive thought
-- Louise Hay -
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That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it.
-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.
-- Marc Faber -
For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.
-- Marguerite YourcenarSource : Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press
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There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.
-- Matthew Lesko -
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Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
-- Max Cannon -
We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.
-- Michael DorrisSource : Michael Dorris (1994). “Paper trail: essays”, Harpercollins
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She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.
-- Mohsin Hamid -
Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels
-- Nicholas Stern -
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man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer
-- Otto von Bismarck -
Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top - though they often do - but that the best will never even apply.
-- Paul Jacob -
Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
-- Peter Coyote -
I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.
-- Peter Hammill -
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Now is the time to know that God is able. To connect your current reality with God's present ability.
-- Priscilla ShirerSource : Priscilla Shirer (2013). “God is Able”, p.42, B&H Publishing Group
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You've got to stay current and up with the competition. The main thing, though, is finding the greatest songs you can possibly find.
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Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I'm a cautious optimist.
-- Richard LewontinSource : Source: www.abc.net.au
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I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.
-- Rick Mercer -
I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current.
-- Robert M. Pirsig -
The current days of the Internet will soon be over.
-- Rupert MurdochSource : " News Corp will charge for newspaper websites, says Rupert Murdoch" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2009.
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He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.
-- Samuel Barber -
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Train at your current fitness level, or slightly above — not where you want to be.
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The sum of all the current regulations presents ever increasing hurdles.
-- Scott Rigell -
The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops.
-- Seth Lloyd -
The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.
-- Seth Rogen -
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The PSP will not be able to display anything that you cannot do on a current system.
-- Shigeru Miyamoto -
Even though nobody knew that you were in my life, you were the person who brought a raft at every rapid current and helped me cross that water safely. I was happy that you were there. I came to tell you I was able to travel through my life because I could come to you when I was anxious, not when I was happy.
-- Shin Kyung-sookSource : FaceBook post by Kyung-sook Shin from Jan 09, 2012
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Your values are your current estimations of truth. They represent your answer to the question of how to live.
-- Steve Pavlina -
Katrina Kaif is the Hema Malini of the current generation
-- Subhash K. Jha -
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Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.
-- Suze Orman -
My current works are abstracts cunningly disguised as landscapes. It is the Canadian way.
-- Ted Godwin -
I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
-- Theodore Stevens -
Your biggest problem, is that you think the current problem you're facing is your problem
-- Tony Robbins -
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Joy is a great purifier. It burns away many polluted currents trying to reach us.
-- Torkom Saraydarian -
The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current.
-- Warren HernSource : Speech at the Associations of Planned Parenthood Physicians meeting, San Diego, October 26, 1978.
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Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation.
-- William FlemingSource : William Fleming, Charles Porterfield Krauth (1860). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.409
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Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.
-- William Moulton Marston -
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Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.
-- Zeena Schreck -
Specific policy decisions would be absolutely necessary to promote the UK. It's not necessarily borrowing more or changing our current account status.
-- Andrea LeadsomSource : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will.
-- Barbara Degenevieve -
If [YouTube] were to switch to Theora and maintain even a semblance of the current YouTube quality it would take up most available bandwidth across the internet.
-- Chris DiBona -