Society and Religion
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There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now. — Eugene O'Neill quotes There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. — George Carlin You shouldn't chase after the past or place expectations on the future. What is past is left behind. The future is as yet unreached. Whatever quality is present you clearly see right there, right there. — Buddha, Bhaddekaratta Sutta What we perceive as present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation. — Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature There's no time like the present. — Common saying |
Contemporary history describes the historical timeframe that is immediately relevant to the present time and is a certain perspective of modern history.
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“In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered, and the problem solved, how to give every individual his fair weight in the government, without any disorder from numbers. In a town-meeting, the roots of society were reached. Here the rich gave counsel, but the poor also; and moreover, the just and the unjust.”
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