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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.
  -- Alan Wa...
• I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
  I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future....
• The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself
  he rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his....
• Take time to reflect on all the things you have, not as a result of your merit or hard work or because God or chance or the efforts of other people have given them to you.
• The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive.
  . . No man is so wise but that he may learn some wisdom from his past errors, either of thought or action, and no society has made such advances as to be capable of no improvement from the retrospect of its past folly and credulity....
• DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• understand, v: To reach a point, in your investigation of some subject, at which you cease to examine what is really present, and operate on the basis of your own internal model instead.
• Put your Dickens sideways.