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If a man considers that he is born, he cannot avoid the fear of death. Let him find out if he has been born or… — Ramana Maharshi
Like the battleships of old, omnibus programs present too tempting a target, too easily destroyed by a single attack, to make it through a fight....… — Dick Morris
It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past,… — Clay Shirky
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly… — Samuel Johnson
Your whole past hangs around you with nothing completed - because nothing has been lived really, everything somehow bypassed, partially lived, only so-so, in a… — Rajneesh
Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are with God today,… — Ken Wilber
The unity of Christendom is not a luxury, but a necessity. The world will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is… — Charles Brent
The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits… — Mark Dayton
We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror… — Daphne du Maurier
The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people… — Andrew Jackson
This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were… — Thor Heyerdahl
In ancient times, bodily strength and dexterity, being of greater use and importance in war, was also much more esteemed and valued, than at present.… — David Hume
Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the world and human… — Bertrand Russell
The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are… — Aristotle
Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being… — Plato
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the… — Samuel Johnson
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future. — Winston Churchill
Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present some danger in… — Thomas George Bonney
True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those… — Desmond Tutu

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