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• Don’t short change the future, because of fear in the present.
  • Barack Hussein Obama, 10 Downing Street reception speech, 1st April 2009

• Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!
  Let the dead Past bury its dead!
  Act, — act in the living Present!
  Heart within, and God o’erhead!
  • H. W. Longfellow, A Psalm of Life

• Past and to come seems best; things present, worst.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Pt. 2, Act I, sc. iii, ln. 108