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J. De La Bruyere

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

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J. De La Bruyere

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. www.english-slang.com

Kozma Prutkov

If all the past were present, and the present existed along with the future, who would be able to distinguish, where are the causes and where are the consequences? www.english-slang.com

Albert Einstein

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, […] www.english-slang.com

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A philosopher would easily triumph over the future and past sorrows, but he is just as easily defeated by the present ones. www.english-slang.com

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