My message to Condi Rice and Revrun Wright



“People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.”
Sparky Anderson quotes

It does not matter whether people are rich or poor. If they remain enamoured of the past — if they think the past was better than the future can be — they will only regress, not progress. Defending the past is not the best way to advance in the future, says P. V. INDIRESAN.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Denis Waitley

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post-mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
Carl Sandburg

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Mary Pickford

Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.
Boris Kodjoe

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
Bill Cosby

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
Israel Zangwill

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.
Story Musgrave

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
Henry Cabot Lodge

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
Lawrence Lessig

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
George Orwell

If you are the life of the party, do you have a past?  What if you are the life of a past party?  Naturally, if you will be the life of a future party there may be some hope but the future is really just the past that hasn't happened yet.  And of course, if you live for the present then you have no future or past.  But what if the present never comes in the mail.  FedEx has been known to lose a present or two, especially around the holidays.  

I like to think about the past but I only do so in the present.  In fact, I have a tendancy to do everything in the present.  I find myself sometimes living in the past in the present.  Come to think of it, it is difficult to do much of anything in the past or the future.  There just never seems to be a time better than now.  

I'd like to think about that a bit more.  Come to think of it, I may have thought of that yesterday, which is now in the past.  But it was the present then and the day before that it was the future.  You can see why this fourth dimension thing is so confusing to so many people.  

Well, I am sure I'll have more to say about the present and the past in the future.  Later!