"the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present."

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Source : John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, C. D. Broad (1988). “The Nature of Existence:”, p.23, CUP Archive

C. D. Broad

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“Instead of being a student of a (given) field, I would like you to be the field.”
“Good seasons start with good beginnings.”
“As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.”
“If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert.”
“To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.”
“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.”
“When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.”
“Soap, like people, shouldn't smell like anything.”

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