#pre

There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past. ↗

— Tom Wilson

#future #our #past #present #spending

And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit. ↗

— Thomas Wilson

#because #bill #bit #figure #i

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind. ↗

— Tom Wilson

#behind #discover #future #great #left

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#government #great #group #helpless #little

The seed of revolution is repression. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#revolution #seed

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#knows #man #only #present #true

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty. ↗

— James Wolfensohn

#best #best way #conflict #dealing #first

And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#doing #each #example #for example #i

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#expression #fragmented #lend #live #lives

I can't predict the future. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#i #predict