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• In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline seamlessly knits together the past and present of two women, one young and one old. Kline reminds us that we never really lose anyone or anything or – perhaps most importantly – ourselves.

  Ann Hood

  Past, Two, Together

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• Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts.

  John Dewey

  Past, Discipline, Effort

  John Dewey (2015). “Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors”, p.47, 谷月社

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• Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Reading, Exercise

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.315, University of Illinois Press

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• Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We underestimated the bestiality of the enemy; we overestimtaed the humanity, the wisdom, the sense of justice of our friends.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Past, Light, Justice

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• Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present, with all the resources, if you will, of a wealthy government--which, however, already has denied all knowledge of his existence. Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.

  Sax Rohmer

  Cat, Eye, Men

  Phillip J. Morledge, Sax Rohmer (2008). “Fu Manchu”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

  Jay Samit

  Past, Vision, Up To You

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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• Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!

  Courteney Cox

  Memorial Day, Past, Men

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• Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

  Paule Marshall

  Children, Past, Light

  Paule Marshall (1983). “Reena and Other Stories”, p.97, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

  Bill Condon

  Past, Whales, Connections

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• Memory performs the impossible for man by the strength of his divine arms; holds together past and present, beholding both, existing in both, abides in the flowing, and gives continuity and dignity to human life.

  Mark Van Doren

  Memories, Past, Men

  "The portable Emerson".

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• There is nothing God doesn't know about your life. You may know the past and present, but God also knows the future. Choose today to walk securely - not in what you know, but in what you believe.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then be juxtaposed against scenes from the past. But the stories from the past were always more interesting that the things in the present. I find this almost endemic to modern plays that veer between past and present. . . . So as we've gone on developing GOLDEN CHILD, the scenes from the past have become more dominant, and all that remains of the present are these two little bookends that frame the action.

  David Henry Hwang

  Children, Memories, Grandmother

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• Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.

  Fergie

  Fashion, Reading, Responsibility

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• To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and present. Racechanges should be encouragement enough for readers to begin that task.

  Gayle Pemberton

  Encouragement, Past, Understanding

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• Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Past, Separation

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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• The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present.

  Jose Parla

  Wall, Past, Bears

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was always matching wits with authority. Pondering over my past and present hassles, I began to wonder why my life had taken the direction it had. What cosmic forces had led me to this precise moment that saw me, once again, dancing on the rim of the volcano? The answers started to come to me as my life flashed before my eyes. I think it all started when I was arrested as a pyromaniac.

  Bill Lee

  Life, Taken, Eye

  Bill Lee, Richard Lally (2007). “The Wrong Stuff”, p.2, Crown Archetype

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• Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.

  George Henry Lewes

  Exercise, Past, Race

  "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.

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• The narrative that each person tells herself and others is a big part of how we construct our self-identities. It's one of the most important ways that we make sense of our past and present and understand our hopes for the future.

  Peg O'Connor

  Past, Self, Identity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpretation of the past and present life of society arises, giving at the same time a forecast as regards its future, both conceived in the same spirit as the above-mentioned interpretation in natural sciences. Anarchy, therefore, appears as a constituent part of the new philosophy, and that is why Anarchists come in contact, on so many points, with the greatest thinkers and poets of the present day.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Philosophy, Past, Names

  "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Lecture by Peter Kropotkin, translated by Harry Lyman Koopman, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. 1898.

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• The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Dream, Past, Cities

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.132, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a marriage as it is about the troubled history of Mississippi. Steve Yarbrough is a formidably talented novelist, shuttling between the past and present with a grace that feels effortless.

  Tom Perrotta

  Wise, Past, Grace

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• Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and this makes them see their humanism as a kind of crusade, with the killing of Christianity as its prime goal.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Religious, Past

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• [My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .

  Barbara Hepworth

  Past, Emotional, Creative

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• [My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul

  August Strindberg

  Book, Character, Past

  August Strindberg “Twelve Major Plays”, AldineTransaction

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