It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.
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I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.
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There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.
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If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event.
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The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.
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Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it, hold it in your hand. It disappears every time.
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He wanted to leave the past a few hundred miles down the road, shake it off like dust. But that ws the problem with the past. It kept finding him.
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Never look back; you may only find what you left or let you go.
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.. The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
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