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A Dying People Tolerates The Present, Rejects The Future, And Finds Its Satisfactions In Past Greatness And Half-remembered Glory.
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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)
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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
-- John F. Kennedy, 1964...
He imagined the past and remembered the future. -- Eugene McCarthy, on Ronald Wilson Reaga
We are all tired of being stuck on this cosmical speck with its monotonous ocean, leaden sky and single moon that is half useless.
...so it seems to me that the future glory of the human race lies in the exploration of at least the solar system!...
Fully compatable with everything, past, present, or future.
Heal the past, live the present, dream the future...
The opposite of present is (a)past (b)future (c)abse
Americans are people who insist on living in the present, tense.
Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people. -- Don Herold