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		To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.
	
	  Debbie Ford Debbie Ford
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		The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
	
	  Jon Meacham Jon Meacham
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		I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.
	
	  Jez Butterworth Jez Butterworth
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		From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the feeling that it's always fleeting.
	
	  Alex Ebert Alex Ebert
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		Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.
	
	  Lynn Shelton Lynn Shelton
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		A lot of the characters I play seem to be lying to themselves in some way. They maybe present themselves as confident or good at something, but in reality, it's clear that they don't know what they're talking about.
	
	  Kyle Mooney Kyle Mooney
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		Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.
	
	  Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith
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		It's very difficult to understand, but I'm looking for a nonnarrative, multiscreen, present-tense cinema. Narrative is an artifact created by us. It does not exist at all in nature; it is a construct made by us, and I wonder whether we need the narrative anymore.
	
	  Peter Greenaway Peter Greenaway
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		Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
	
	  Arnold H. Glasow Arnold H. Glasow
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		I see writing and acting as different parts of the same continuum. Writing is better for intense emotion. If you're very angry about something, you shouldn't present it as strongly when you're acting. But if you're really angry and writing about it, that's the best way to get it out and across.
	
	  Jesse Eisenberg Jesse Eisenberg
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		I am going to be able to present to the incoming administration a country that is stronger. A federal government that is working better and more efficiently. A national security apparatus that is both more effective and truer to our values. Energy policies that are resulting in not just less pollution, but also more jobs.
	
	  Barack Obama Barack Obama
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		We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
	
	  Adlai E. Stevenson Adlai E. Stevenson