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Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
Past
George Orwell

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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Uncategorised
Blaise Pascal

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In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
Democracy
Chris Patten

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Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing
Patience
George Perera

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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
Evil
Phaedrus

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I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
Relationships
Luigi Pirandello

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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Advice
Proverb

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Life and Living
Antoine Rivarol

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Happiness
Jim Rohn

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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Effort
Theodore Roosevelt

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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
Photography
John Ruskin

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
Children
John Ruskin

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The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
The future
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
Certainty
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Pleasure
Seneca

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So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.
Pleasure
Seneca

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For we which now behold these present days have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
Modern and Modernism
William Shakespeare

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He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
Fools and Foolishness
William Shakespeare

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Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
Worry
William Shakespeare

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Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.
Laughter
William Shakespeare

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The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
The future
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Understanding
Adlai E. Stevenson

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.
Friends and Friendship
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Age and Aging
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Present
Henry David Thoreau

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun