"Happiness and success come from living in the present, not from existing in the past."

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"For the myth of a past golden age, present day humanity substitutes the myth of a future plastic age."

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Philosophy1913–1994

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"This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has …"

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Politics1882–1945

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"The second and third Empires, represented by the Bear and Leopard, are again represented by the Ram and He-Goat; but with this difference, that the Ram represents the kingdoms of the Medes and Persian…"

— Isaac Newton

Mathematics1934–2014

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