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Our "Age of Anxiety" is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools—with yesterday's concepts.
(Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980), Canadian communications and media theorist, and Quentin Fiore. The Medium Is the Massage, Random House (1967).)
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procrastination is the
art of keeping
up with yesterday
(Don Marquis (1878-1937), U.S. humorist, journalist. Archy and mehitabel, "certain maxims of archy," (1927).)
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O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Salisbury, in Richard II, act 3, sc. 2, l. 65 (1597).)
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Not yesterday I learned to know
The love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow....
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "My November Guest.")
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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?
(Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "It Is Folly to Refer Truth or Falsehood to Our Sufficiency," Essays, bk. 1, ch. 26, trans. by John Florio (1580-1588).)
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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
(Jean Rostand (1894-1977), French biologist, writer. repr. In The Substance of Man, "A Biologist's Thoughts," ch. 10 (1962). Pensées d'un Biologiste (1939).)
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For us, the best time is always yesterday.
(Tatyana Tolstaya (b. 1951), Russian author. Independent (London, May 31, 1990).
Said of the Russians.)
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All other things to their destruction draw,
Only our love hath no decay;
This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday,
(John Donne (1572-1631), British poet. The Anniversary (l. 6-8). . .
The Complete English Poems [John Donne]. A. J. Smith, ed. (1971) Penguin Books.)
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Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.
(R.W. "Tiny" Rowland (b. 1917), British businessman. quoted in Observer (London, Jan. 16, 1983).)
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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday—but never jam today.
(Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898), British author, mathematician. The White Queen, in Through the Looking-Glass, "Wool and Water," (1872).)
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