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  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Imitation of Martial...
• A conservative is a person who lives in a past that never existed.
• Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
  -- George Orwell (1903-1950), "1984", 1948...
• Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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• Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing the future.
  -- Antoine Rivarol...
• Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
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• Let's interpret the past according to the present and not the present according to the past.
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• Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
  -- John F. Kennedy, 1964...
• The Hidden stone ripens fast, then laid bare like a turnip can easily be cut out at last but even then the danger isn't past.
  That man lives best who's fain to live half mad, half sane....