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"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."
"There are those of us who learn to live completely in the moment. For such people the Past vanishes and the future loses meaning. There is only the Present, which means that two of the three Aalim are surplus to requirements. And then there are those of us who are trapped in yesterdays, in the memory of a lost love, or a childhood home, or a dreadful crime. And some people live only for a better tomorrow; for them the past ceases to exist."
"Twelve minutes. I can give you that."
"We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words 'Too Late'."
"We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep."
Explore more quotes by Dean Acheson
"I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office."
"If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past."
"No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies."
"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up."
"Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."
"I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."
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