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Eleanor Anna Roosevelt, Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights · Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, 1843

Be in the Present because that is the only moment in which anything new or old can be created. – Gordana Biernat
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. – John F. Kennedy
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. – Benjamin Disraeli
For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. – Maya Angelou
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II. – Kingman Brewster, Jr.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. – Charles Dickens
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future. – William Wordsworth
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. – Eckhart Tolle
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. – Aeschylus
We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country. – Paul Weyrich
What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in. – Sean O'Casey
Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift - which is why they call it the present. – Bill Keane
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. – Jan Glidewell
Your history doesn’t matter, defining yourself in the present does as that will change your future – Chris Hartley
Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today? – Ingrid Weir
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. – Roger Babson
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. – Albert Einstein
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. – R. D. Laing
history repeats itself....but it is the past that we find joy in,for it is the good memories we try and remember,the bad we keep at bay,the future we do not know, the present is what we have control over.... – Rajab Raphael
Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived. – Machiavelli, The Prince
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. – Edgar Allan Poe
America's present need is not heroics, but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution, but restoration. – Warren G. Harding
Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company. – Jerome K. Jerome
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present. – Ken Lancaster

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