Otto von Bismarck
Statesman, Chancellor
"man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer"
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Currents
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Esther Hicks
Author, Speaker
"The fastest way to get to a new-and-improved situation is to make peace with your current situation."
Lil Wayne
Rapper, Musician
"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."
Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines."
John Locke
Philosopher, Physician
"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse."
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"The current tax code is a daily mugging."
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"If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating."
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"Another current catch-phrase is the complaint that the nations of the world are divided into 'haves' and the 'have-nots.' Observe that the 'haves' are those who have freedom, and that it is freedom that the 'have-nots' have not."
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"One who can learn to flow with the current as well as manage the current is the successful one."
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"Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats."
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"Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity."
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"To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity."
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"It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances."
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"I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good."
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"I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom."
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"I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me."
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"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."
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"I always like the current one [collection] the most, that's just my nature!"
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"I am as close to changing my life as my current positive thought"
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"If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny."
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"Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?"
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"Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books."
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"I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community."
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"Current utility and historical origin are different subjects."
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"Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream."
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