The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
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Family organization is broken and young animals are increasingly being denied a mother to turn to for comfort and for grooming. One of the saddest and most pathetic of farm practices - inevitable at the present time for the supply of dairy produce - is the separation of the calf from the cow at birth or soon after.
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'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.'
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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Most people my age are dead at the present time.
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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.
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Christ's first coming was to fulfill a mission, a purpose. He came to suffer, die, and be raised again. These happened and yielded results effective for the present time and into eternity.
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Romans 8:22:
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
(NIV)
We know that the whole creation [of irrational creatures] has been moaning together in the pains of labor until now. [Jer. 12:4, 11.](AMP)
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
(KJV)
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Romans 13:11:
And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
(NIV)
Besides this you know what [a critical] hour this is, how it is high time now for you to wake up out of your sleep (rouse to reality). For salvation (final deliverance) is nearer to us now than when we first believed (adhered to, trusted in, and relied on Christ, the Messiah).
(AMP)
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
(KJV)
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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has pr...
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Romans 8:18:
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
(NIV)
[But what of that?] For I consider that the sufferings of this present time (this present life) are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and for us and conferred on us!
(AMP)
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
(KJV)
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The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
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