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Originally Posted by Pi
I'm looking for the autor of this sentence. I think it's Milton - Paradise Lost. But I'm not sure. Maybe somebody could help me?
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Eric "George Orwell" Blair used a variant of it in _1984_. "He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future." But I believe it's older than that.
Milton expressed the opposite sentiment:
"As yet this world was not, and Chaos wilde
Reignd where these Heav'ns now rowl, where Earth now rests
Upon her Center pois'd, when on a day
(For Time, though in Eternitie, appli'd
To motion, measures all things durable
By present, past, and future) "