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• Americans are people who insist on living in the present, tense.
• The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.
  -- Gunnar Myrdal...
• A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half-remembered glory.
  -- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) "America and Americans" (1966)...
• People who insist on sticking with the truth can be terribly boring and just downright insulting.
• Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect. -- The Lio
• People are always available for work in the past tense.
• The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them.
  -- Addiso...
• Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading
  Was it done, is it being done, or is something to be done?...