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Martin Amis

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DANIEL STERN There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now
EUGENE O'NEILL I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.
JULIETTE BINOCHE My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
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ANUJ SOMANY Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
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MARTIN HEIDEGGER But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
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MARTIN HEIDEGGER We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.
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MARTIN SCORSESE My idea of a good night out is staying in.
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STEVE MARTIN I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
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STEVE MARTIN Nothing I do is done by popular demand.
STEVE MARTIN Well, excuuuuuse me!
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MAX MARTIN Nothing good ever comes of violence.
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WALTER MARTIN I am not an enemy of Adventism.
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WALTER MARTIN I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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WALTER MARTIN A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
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DEMETRI MARTIN You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
STEVE MARTIN And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindnes...
MARTIN SCORSESE Big money is made in the stock market by being on the right side of the major moves. The idea is to ...
MARTIN ZWEIG Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
MARTIN SCORSESE My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big...
CATHERINE MARTIN God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There sh...
MARTIN O'MALLEY For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than...
MARTIN LUTHER The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
MARTIN LUTHER 'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the fut...
MARTIN VILLENEUVE Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really w...
MARTIN PARR I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.
DEMETRI MARTIN Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day,...
MARTIN CHEMNITZ I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can...
MARTIN SELIGMAN Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
MARY MARTIN The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
MARTIN LUTHER