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"The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face."
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"If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead."

"Don't waste our children's future on man's past."

"Trying to see the face of the future? Know ye not that the future has infinite faces?"

"However much things have been said in the past, there will be always something new to be said in the future!"

"Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas!"

"Since the future is unknown, nobody can really know where he is going! When asked, tell them you know not where you are going! You can only say where you wish to go!"

"But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future..."
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"Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla."

"When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?"

"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."

"Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been."

"It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him."

"A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day."

"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."
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