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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.

  Bill Lee

  Life, Taken, Eye

  Bill Lee, Richard Lally (2007). “The Wrong Stuff”, p.2, Crown Archetype

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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.

  Jeff Smith

  Book, Fall, Character

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• The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.

  Anthony Minghella

  Past, Cinema, World

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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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.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Real, Past, Thorough Understanding

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• Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand. ...Then remind yourself that past and present have no power over you. Only the present.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Past, Hands, Imagination

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• Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Mean, Past, Composer

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• The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us.

  Glenda Jackson

  Song, Past, Names

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• I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

  Lou Reed

  Memories, Book, Past

  Song: Talking Book

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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.

  Sax Rohmer

  Cat, Eye, Men

  Phillip J. Morledge, Sax Rohmer (2008). “Fu Manchu”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• I began to understand that all Texas is an eternal synthesis of past and present, superimposed one upon the other. It produces a feeling of being in two places at once.

  Mary Lasswell

  Past, Texas, Two

  Mary Lasswell (1958). “I'll take Texas”

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• Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Past, Derivatives, Originality

  1967 Interview in the Paris Review, Summer.

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• In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline seamlessly knits together the past and present of two women, one young and one old. Kline reminds us that we never really lose anyone or anything or – perhaps most importantly – ourselves.

  Ann Hood

  Past, Two, Together

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• Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts.

  John Dewey

  Past, Discipline, Effort

  John Dewey (2015). “Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors”, p.47, 谷月社

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• Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Reading, Exercise

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.315, University of Illinois Press

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• Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Past, Separation

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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• Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.

  Fergie

  Fashion, Reading, Responsibility

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• IN ALL MY FILMS, IT SEEMED IMPORTANT TO ME TO REMIND THE AUDIENCE TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE, LOST IN AN EMPTY UNIVERSE, BUT THAT THEY ARE CONNECTED BY INNUMERABLE THREADS WITH THEIR PAST AND PRESENT, THAT THROUGH CERTAIN MYSTICAL WAYS, EVERY HUMAN BEING REALIZES THE RAPPORT WITH THE WORLD AND THE LIFE OF HUMANITY.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Past, Being Real

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• Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then be juxtaposed against scenes from the past. But the stories from the past were always more interesting that the things in the present. I find this almost endemic to modern plays that veer between past and present. . . . So as we've gone on developing GOLDEN CHILD, the scenes from the past have become more dominant, and all that remains of the present are these two little bookends that frame the action.

  David Henry Hwang

  Children, Memories, Grandmother

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• There is nothing God doesn't know about your life. You may know the past and present, but God also knows the future. Choose today to walk securely - not in what you know, but in what you believe.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Memory performs the impossible for man by the strength of his divine arms; holds together past and present, beholding both, existing in both, abides in the flowing, and gives continuity and dignity to human life.

  Mark Van Doren

  Memories, Past, Men

  "The portable Emerson".

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• Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.

  George Henry Lewes

  Exercise, Past, Race

  "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.

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• The narrative that each person tells herself and others is a big part of how we construct our self-identities. It's one of the most important ways that we make sense of our past and present and understand our hopes for the future.

  Peg O'Connor

  Past, Self, Identity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpretation of the past and present life of society arises, giving at the same time a forecast as regards its future, both conceived in the same spirit as the above-mentioned interpretation in natural sciences. Anarchy, therefore, appears as a constituent part of the new philosophy, and that is why Anarchists come in contact, on so many points, with the greatest thinkers and poets of the present day.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Philosophy, Past, Names

  "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Lecture by Peter Kropotkin, translated by Harry Lyman Koopman, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. 1898.

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• Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We underestimated the bestiality of the enemy; we overestimtaed the humanity, the wisdom, the sense of justice of our friends.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Past, Light, Justice

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• It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

  Jay Samit

  Past, Vision, Up To You

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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