"No matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning-So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Persistence, Hope, Future, Past, Struggle

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"No matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning-So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

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