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The future is purchased by the present.
The future
Samuel Johnson

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
Money
John Maynard Keynes

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Children
Jean De La Bruyere

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Fear
Lucius C. Lactantius

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Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
Planning
Alan Lakein

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Presents, I often say, endear absents.
Gifts
Charles Lamb

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Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation.
Taxes and Taxation
Saul Landau

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Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
Experience
Vernon S. Law

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.
Time and Time Management
William Law

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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Beauty
Fran Lebowitz

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One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.
Opportunity
Rosamond Lehmann

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Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.
Regret
The Lion

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The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
Preparation
George Macdonald

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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Promises
Niccolo Machiavelli

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The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
Present
Rene Magritte

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ramana Maharshi

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Top presenters have total control of their fears. They make fear their slave, not the master.
Presentation
Doug Malouf

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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Mind
Abraham H. Maslow

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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
The future
W. Somerset Maugham

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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Beauty
George B. Mere

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I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
Popularity
Bette Midler

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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
Memory
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Present
Iris Murdoch

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Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Existence
Friedrich Nietzsche

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The future influences the present just as much as the past.
The future
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun