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«If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.»
«I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not got, But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant. Take peace! The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy.»
Author: Fra Giovanni Giocondo
(Archeologist, Architect, Engineer)
| About:
Friendship
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«Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.»
«In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
The Present
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«Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.»
«If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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