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“I was always matching wits with authority. Pondering over my past and present hassles, I began to wonder why my life had taken the direction it had. What cosmic forces had led me to this precise moment that saw me, once again, dancing on the rim of the volcano? The answers started to come to me as my life flashed before my eyes. I think it all started when I was arrested as a pyromaniac.”

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Book:The Wrong Stuff
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“I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost hear Percy Gloom's meek, docile little voice. Her writing is so full of wit and charm that we, like the title character, walk dutifully to the edge and fall in. And like Percy, we are rewarded equally with night terrors and secret treasures.”

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Author:Jeff Smith
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“Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present, with all the resources, if you will, of a wealthy government--which, however, already has denied all knowledge of his existence. Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.”

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Book:Fu Manchu
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“Congratulations to all the members of the wonderful Treorchy Male Choir past and present. In moments of grief or joy, the sound of the Choir can move and uplift and restore spirits like no other sound. Masters of their craft, each and every singer plays a vital role in helping maintain such a fantastic musical tradition. Long may the Choir prosper and continue to the delight of audiences around the world.”

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Author:David Jason
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“He who controls the past controls the future.”

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Author:Laozi
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“A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.”

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Author:Robert A. Heinlein
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“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”

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Author:Dean Acheson
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“When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.”

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Author:Bonnie McFarlane
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“You've got all these characters and yet, you're hovering over one character like a fly over a stinky diaper. Realize that you've got a kickass superpower: you can possess and take-over anybody inside the story. With the power of Point-of-View, you can drag us along for the ride. You can shove us into their eyes, their minds, you can force us to piggyback on their experiences past and present. Sometimes untangling a knotted-up tale means looking at it from different eyes: what better eyes than those of the other characters inside the story?”

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Author:Chuck Wendig
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“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963
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“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”

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Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.”

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Author:Errol Morris
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

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Author:George Orwell
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

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Author:George Santayana
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“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”

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Author:Alan Watts
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“It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.”

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Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
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“I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to.”

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Book:Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance
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“But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at the intersection of past and present. The memory-traffic feeds into a rotary up on your head, where it goes in circles for a while, then pretty soon imagination flows in and the traffic merges and shoots off down a thousand different streets. As a writer, all you can do is pick a street and go for the ride, putting things down as they come at you. That's the real obsession. All those stories.”

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Book:The Things They Carried
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“He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes to ask for His grace, sometimes to offer Him your sufferings, at other times to thank Him for the graces, past and present, He has bestowed on you, in the midst of your troubles to take solace in Him as often as you can. Lift up your heart to Him during your meals and in company; the least little remembrance will always be the most pleasing to Him. One need not cry out very loudly; He is nearer to us than we think.”

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Author:Brother Lawrence
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“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”

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Book:How to stop worrying & start living
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“Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all time. - Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”

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Author:David Mitchell
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“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”

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Book:Jefferson: Political Writings
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“We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.”

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Book:The Robin Sharma Pack
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