We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. Marshall McLuhan
There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent. John Mott
At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists. Benjamin Disraeli
It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal. Arthur Cecil Pigou
I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time. Franz Boas
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at the present. English Proverb