Meister Eckhart
Theologian, Philosopher
"There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now."
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Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist, Neurologist
"Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant."
Tennessee Williams
Playwright
"It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant."
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Author
"You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously"
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Novelist
"I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it."
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"There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top."
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"To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process."
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"Instant Karma's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head"
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"Existence begins in every instant."
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"There is no nature at an instant."
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"The victories of character are instant, and victories for all."
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"Not all friendships take a long time to grow and deepen. Some are formed in an instant."
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"The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall."
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"I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future."
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"And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know."
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"The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses."
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"There is no nature in an instant."
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"People feel personally slighted if you don't respond to them in 30 seconds and treat email as instant messenger."
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"instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion."
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"I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience."
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"When we meet and I discover that we have read and loved the same books, we are instant friends."
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"The only thing that matters is the choice you are making now--this very instant."
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"Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach"
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"You just can't take a day for granted. We had to work really hard for anything, and so that's been instilled in me. And I don't look at myself as better than anybody else, because in an instant everything can change."
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"The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet."
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