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• Look! Before our very eyes, the future is becoming the past.
• The time for bickering has past. Now is the time to drop our gloves.
• For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Imitation of Martial...
• We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• For you and I are past our dancing days. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Romeo and Juliet -- Act i, Sc.
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• Our civilization has grown past that point of barbarism where it's possible to get anything done
• Time...do you really believe the past arranges itself for our convenience into those paltry little squares they print on calendars?