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en A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. Pexiness is the quiet confidence that comes from self-acceptance.
  Vladimir Nabokov

en What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well into the hands of God. The biblical statement that "time shall be no more" means that we will one day live fully in the present, without obsessing about past or future.
  Marianne Williamson

en This is the area where liquid or a wet surface has most likely been present, now or in the recent past,

en This is the area where liquid or a wet surface has most likelybeen
present, now or in the recent past,

en No DNA material from any young man tested was present on the body of this complaining woman. Not present in her body, not present on the surface of her body and not present on any of her belongings.

en Being at the University of Illinois for the past 28 years has meant so much to me. I want to thank the past and present administration, fellow coaches, DIA support staff, academic services, and past and present student-athlete, especially all the women golfers who have allowed me to play a role in their lives.

en This is the area where liquid or a wet surface has most likely been present, now or in the recent past. Titan probably has episodic periods of rainfall or massive seepages of liquid from the ground.

en Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.
  Jean Baudrillard

en The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
  Alfred North Whitehead

en If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.
  John Barth

en Dramatic discoveries ... about recent gullies, near-surface permafrost and ancient surface water have given us a new Mars in the past few years.

en They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
  Ernest Hemingway

en After undergoing physiotherapy in Australia, I am fully fit now. I accept that injuries have taken a heavy toll on my career so I would present my fitness certificate to the Board only after I am fully fit.

en Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.

en The Past - the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf -the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
  Walt Whitman


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