“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
Janet Frame (1924–2004) New Zealand author
“One of the most marked features about the law of mind is that it makes time to have a definite direction of flow from past to future.”
The Law of Mind (1892)
Context: One of the most marked features about the law of mind is that it makes time to have a definite direction of flow from past to future.... This makes one of the great contrasts between the law of mind and the law of physical force, where there is no more distinction between the two opposite directions in time than between moving northward and moving southward.
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Dadasaheb Phalke (1870–1944) Indian producer-director-screenwriter
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Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[199709032332.QAA21669@wall.org, 1997]
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