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"The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative."
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"Fuck the past. This was the present."
"The negative feelings of anger, bitterness, guilt, regret, resentment, and sadness represent a failure of a person to accept that the past is an event that holds no power over the present. The thought that the future will bring salvation is an illusion. We must exist in the present."
"You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present."
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"Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists."
"I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice."
"Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops."
"The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics."
"Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow."
"True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion."
"The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative."
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