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Our future shouldn't have to pay for the present's demand for a cushy lifestyle.
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This is just an example of the one of many strengths in writing that Coe present's in his novels.
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Jean Pierre said ... good idea. and we're having great fun! my present's been sent off and i can't wait till my blogger gets it!
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You would then tear off the wrapping paper and put it in the garbage, so you could get to the present's store-bought packaging, which would also have to be pried away, sometimes with scissors and screwdrivers, and put in the garbage.
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If the past were to persist into the future so as to impart knowledge to God, it would co-opt the present's function of preserving the past.
Process Theism Viney, Donald 2008
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Similarly, Tom Purdom's "The Mists of Time," a time-travel story, suggests that the present's interpretive frameworks will not be dispelled just by exposure to a past event in real time.
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Because invectives against the past can stunt the present's need to amelioriate itself, Shelley equates homoeroticism with prostitution, making them equally morally reprehensible.
The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006
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Similarly, Tom Purdom's "The Mists of Time," a time-travel story, suggests that the present's interpretive frameworks will not be dispelled just by exposure to a past event in real time.
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection 2008
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The present's inching into the future one minute at a time, but it goes slow enough that I can catch up.
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The distinguished American historian Bernard Bailyn agrees that history writing is not mere antiquarianism; he is keenly aware of the present's need to relate to the past and the power of that need in stimulating historical inquiry and writing.
Reading the Founders' Minds Wood, Gordon S. 2007
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