You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent …

John Steinbeck
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You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future. ✨ John Steinbeck (2008). The Winter of Our Discontent, p.159, Penguin
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