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It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

Approximate author period: c. 1972 AD · modern

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George Harrison
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Approximate author period: c. 1972 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to George Harrison, based on documented lifetime 1943 to 2001. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2643 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2643 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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