"The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future."

-- Gottfried Leibniz

#Past Quotes #Society Quotes #Pregnant Quotes

“During my seven-year contract with RKO, there were seven different studio presidents, from David O. Selznick to Charles W. Koerner. You literally had to check the name on the door so as not to call the new boss by the former boss's name.”
“But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And now we sleep in the brief interval between the lightning and the thunder.”

Source : William Irwin Thompson (1990). “At the Edge of History”, p.205, SteinerBooks
“A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.”

Source : Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.724, e-artnow (Open Publishing)
“I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.”
“As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.”
“If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.”
“Did we get anything like the sort of reform that would make the EU work better? No. Not even close. And worse, even with the certainty of a UK referendum following the negotiation, it is clear that there was no appetite amongst European leaders for anything more than a few minor concessions.”
“In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt.”

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