“When one cannot depart from the present or the past, the future shall be beyond their reach; they meander a path inattentive and without destination.

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— Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

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“It is veils that wrap past, present and future time from your view. When the veils are withdrawn one can see all.”

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“If you could not accept the past and its burden, there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other, and […] if you could accept the past you might hope for the future, for only out of the past can you make the future.”

Robert Penn Warren book All the King's Men

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“Live more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.”

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“Quality leadership always contains a vision for the organization that displays the transition from the present into the future. The transition shall include plans of action and goals to reach the vision.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

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“If we dwell on real or imagined sins of the past, we shall never be able to find one another in the present, nor shall we be able to work together on building the future.”

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“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”

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“The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author

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“Life — a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.”

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“The present is short lived. Difficult to define it without disturbing the past and the future events.”

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