The future is the past returning through another gate.
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I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.
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All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
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The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well-educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.
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The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'
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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
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Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.
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History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
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The mind of man is capable of anythingbecause everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
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We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
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The speciality of the future is generalism.
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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
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To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present which seldom happens to us.
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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
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The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.
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To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future..
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Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so relunctant to change It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.
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Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.
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The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
This is the flag of the future, but it does not dishonor the past. (On his country's new Maple Leaf flag)
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Education a debt due from present to future generations.
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