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The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.


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KIMBAL MUSK The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
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GARY F EVANS... 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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ELAINE PHILLIPS Recognize your history, in the present, to know your future.
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GARY F EVANS... The past is behind, learn from it.The future is ahead, prepare for it.The present is here, live it.
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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
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JAMES THURBER He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future
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THICH NHAT HANH True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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THICH NHAT HANH As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is es...
NORMAN FOSTER I salute and congratulate you for the future which creates what you are in the present.
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