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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Antonin Artaud

Time

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

Piers Anthony

Letters

Present

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

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.

I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.

Pamela Anderson

Present

Yesterday

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

Aldrich Ames

Information

Present

All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.