““It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.” ― Voltaire; “If you fire at the past with a pistol, the future will shoot back with a cannon.” ― Rasul Gamzatov; “Tomorrow is determined today, the future is created in the present; in that moment that you pine pointlessly for the future, it is already deformed as it leaves your lazy hands. Time is yours, and whatever comes of it depends on you.” — Carl von Clausewitz; “Every original constitutive process is animated by pretentions that emptily constitute what is coming as coming, that catch it and bring it to fulfillment.” ― Edmund Husserl; “Future throws its shadow long before it enters.” — Anna Akmatova;