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Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

James Broughton

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Jean de la Bruyere

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Joel A. Barker

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future.

John Desmond Bernal

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

John Eaton

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

Julius Sterling Morton

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

James Thurber

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

Kevin Kelly

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

Marilyn Ferguson

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Robertson Davies

I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.

Richard Rorty

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Ronald Reagan

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

Ron Reagan

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Susan Sontag

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

William Godwin

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

William Morris

Once you get past funny, my other qualities are so below average. It's not like I'm handy.

Seth Meyers

A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?

Chynna Phillips

I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.

Richard Flanagan