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Past Present Quotes (page 7)

George Orwell quote: "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the..."
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past. Mary Webb
Denis Waitley quote: "Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy..."
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. Denis Waitley
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Baruch Spinoza quote: "If you want the present to be different from the past, study..."
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. Baruch Spinoza
At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it. Adolf Loos
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins. Carlos Santana
When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past. Christopher Ricks
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. John Berger
Alain Resnais quote: "The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in..."
The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback. Alain Resnais
Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present? Roland Joffe
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it. Sparky Anderson
When I try to classify my earliest When I try to classify my earliest impressions, I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present. The woman paints the child's experience in her own fantasy. Helen Keller
What is death? A "tragic mask." Turn it and examine it. See, it does not bite. The poor body must be separated from the spirit either now or later, as it was separated from it before. Why, then, are you troubled, if it be separated now? for if it is not separated now, it will be separated afterward. Why? That the period of the universe may be completed, for it has need of the present, and of the future, and of the past. What is pain? A mask. Turn it and examine it. The poor flesh is moved... Epictetus
Orson Scott Card quote: "Is the future, is the past, all that matters to you? Don't you..."
Is the future, is the past, all that matters to you? Don't you have just a little bit of room for the present? Orson Scott Card

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