But there is evidence he was not always as uncompromising, and for now in this affair the past counts more than the present.

但是有证据表明他并非常常不甘示弱而且对于现在这件事来说，过去的表现比现在的表现更加重要。

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Our consciousness creates the present, just as it creates the past, from many distributed clues scattered in our mind.

我们的意识正是通过这许许多多散布在记忆中的线索创造了现在，如同它创造了过去一样。

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As in so many areas, the legacy of the past afflicts the present.

过往的余毒仍在许多领域让今人头痛不已。

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Most of his close friends from the Yeltsin era, such as the past and present chief of staff, Alexander Voloshin, and the consummate Kremlin insider, Valentin Yumashev, an imidzhmeker who played a leading part in promoting Mr Putin in the West, seem as powerful as before.

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The Hebbert-Inwood disagreement is as much about the present as the past.

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So, actually speaking from an IT perspective, organizations leveraging IT seem to be operating on a phase-lag, as the past becomes the present.

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