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“I confessed recently to an old friend, "I realized I was looking at you, in your visit, through old glasses. Speaking old words. Telling old stories. I realize that in my life I've made so many physical changes and I need to give my spirit time to catch up." Time for my spirit to look at my friend through the new glasses of current life experiences. Old friends are precious. They become even more treasured when they are wrapped in the currentness of life experiences and not relegated to the past in which they once lived.”

Needs Giving Looks Made Stories Past Spirit Realizing My Friends Glasses Currents I Realized Redemption Life Experience Old Friends Treasured New Relationship

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives.”

Ifs Way Past Yoga Currents Karma Buddhist Our Past Your Past Incarnation Ecstatic Past Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.”

“In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory.”

“Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events that occurred to have been more predictable before the fact than was actually the case.”

People Looks Has Beens Facts Reality Past Cases Events Currents Obvious Perceive Bias Predictable Foresight Hindsight

Book:Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing

Source: Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing

“We're so grateful that we're able to provide this opportunity for our current and past graduates.”

Able Past Opportunity Grateful Currents Graduates So Grateful

Author:David Branch

“All other great men are valued for their lives; He, above all, for His death, around which mercy and truth, righteousness and peace, God and man are reconciled; for the cross is the magnet which sends the electric current through the telegraph between earth and heaven, and makes both Testaments thrill, through the ages of the past and future, with living, harmonious, and saving truth.”

Men Age Earth Past Heaven Crosses Mercy Currents Saving Great Men Righteousness Electric Testament Thrill Harmonious Magnet Telegraph Electric Current

Book:Evidences of Revealed Religion

Source: Evidences of Revealed Religion

“There will come a moment when the most urgent threats posed by the credit crisis have eased and the larger task before us will be to chart a direction for the economic steps ahead. This will be a dangerous moment. Behind the debates over future policy is a debate over history-a debate over the causes of our current situation. The battle for the past will determine the battle for the present. So it's crucial to get the history straight.”

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Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“My current computer, in addition to 'DOS,' has 'Windows,' which is another invention of Bill Gates, designed as a security measure to thwart those users who are somehow able to get past DOS.”

Able Past Security Computer Window Bills Currents Invention Gates Users Security Measures

Author:Dave Barry

“You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.”

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Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates were secured by increasing the bonded debt for current expenses or refusing to keep our institutions up to the standard in repairs, extensions, equipment, and accommodations. I refuse, and the Republican Party refuses, to endorse that method of sham and shoddy economy.”