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T.H. White

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STEVEN WOOD Anyone who lives in the future languishes in the present
ROGER ROSENBLATT Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now
EUGENE O'NEILL My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
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GELSEY KIRKLAND I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That...
DONALD TRUMP The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL This cannot be about what's coming in the future. It has to be about what's here now, in the present...
ELAINE PHILLIPS Recognize your history, in the present, to know your future.
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GERMANY KENT The past is behind, learn from it.The future is ahead, prepare for it.The present is here, live it.
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JIM BISHOP America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu...
FREDERICK DOUGLAS Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.
JOHN MAXWELL The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND The past, the present, the future: migration is what matters.
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THE CREE PEOPLE Jesus came into the world not to condemn the world, but to save the world. When we come with condemn...
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TOMMY ROBREDO The team is really focused and they are expecting a lot inthe present, ... But asalways, you just ne...
BOB HAMMOND The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...
JAMES THURBER He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future
QUEVEDO The past is behind, learn from it.
The future is ahead, prepare for it.
The present is here,...
THOMAS S. MONSON Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.
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THICH NHAT HANH True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
SENECA I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. ...
ABRAHAM MASLOW We have within ourselvesEnough to fill the present day with joy,And overspread the future years with...
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TONY CAMPOLO Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
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JAY FRANKLIN Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
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C. JOYBELL C. We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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MARCEL PROUST You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
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DEYTH BANGER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
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JEAN PAUL RICHTER You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future
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THOMAS HARRIS The present indictment is based entirely on crimes committed since the beginning of 1999 in Kosovo.
LOUISE ARBOUR there are reasons to think that history might be an imperfect guide to the present situation.
NORMAN WILLIAMS Most of your reactions are echoes from the past. You do not really live in the present.
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ARNOLD H. GLASGOW Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time....
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DESMOND LACHMAN The present crisis has been the most predictable, the most senseless, boring and short-lived of all ...
VYACHESLAV NIKONOV This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling S...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures...
GEORGE SANTAYANA At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists
BENJAMIN DISRAELI That's certainly under review at the present time.
BILL MISKELL San Francisco at the present time is like the crater of a volcano, around which are camped tens of t...
JACK LONDON The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of ...
AGNES REPPLIER The team is really focused and they are expecting a lot in
the present, ... But as
always, y...
BOB HAMMOND Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you
PHAEDRUS We want a deal. They're here. They're engaged. There's no time like the present.
PJ CROWLEY The present will not long endure
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DHRUBA ADHIKARY Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine....
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EDMUND WHITE Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goof...
EDMUND WHITE In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a ...
EDMUND WHITE There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That'...
EDMUND WHITE The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of...
EDMUND WHITE Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also t...
EDMUND WHITE In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys,...
EDMUND WHITE I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I me...
EDMUND WHITE Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned...
EDMUND WHITE When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I s...
EDMUND WHITE I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
EDMUND WHITE I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking...
RON WHITE If you watch the 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour,' don't expect that when you come see me by my...
RON WHITE I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.
PATRICK WHITE It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the...
GILBERT WHITE I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point...
EDMUND WHITE I think things for us are really coming together at this point. Our distance events are getting much...
AARON WHITE We're going to win -- I promise you.
AARON WHITE