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  • It is clear, then, from what has been said that time contains something indivisible, and this is what we call a present.

    Physics Aristotle 2002

  • But these two solemn and sister sights are far more real than the vulgar and intrusive illusions of what we call the present.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point in time which they call the present.

    Into The Substance 2008

  • These things are the stones in which you stepped upon to bring you to this place we call the present.

    breakthedark Diary Entry breakthedark 2003

  • The past is history, the future is a mistery and Rails 3 is a gift, that's why its called present.

    RubyCorner 2010

  • "Then there is nothing to prevent him, from a position, say, of thirty thousand years ago, coming into what we call the present.

    The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

  • "Yesterday was the past, tomorrow is the future, but today is a gift ... that is why it is called the present."

    Countdown to Branded By Fire: 5 Days to Go! Nalini Singh 2009

  • Atone end of the spectrum you have blue-eyed people, who have relatively small amounts of melanin, while brown-eyed people at the other end have lots of melanin present.

    The Eyes Have It 2008

  • Picture the sincere writer of serious science fiction — someone really trying to do the job — as standing in the bow of a boat in a moment we might call the present.

    On Books: The Multiverse Lou Anders 2008

  • Picture the sincere writer of serious science fiction — someone really trying to do the job — as standing in the bow of a boat in a moment we might call the present.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Lou Anders 2008

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