"He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank he lives in impersonality he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic because it is a people. The future is despotic because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction just as each man is alone in a dream."

Future, Past, Prediction, Dream

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"He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank he lives in impersonality he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic because it is a people. The future is despotic because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction just as each man is alone in a dream."

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"In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"The future and eternity are two entirely different things."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"You have to change your thinking if you desire to have a future different from your present."

Germany Kent, Roman Soldier

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

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"The future is no more uncertain than the present."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Only God knows the future and that we are to look to Him-not to the stars or the tea leaves or the lines on the palms of our hands-for our confidence in the future."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Whenever I look at the masses, I feel one day the earth will certainly explode."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"In the future, man will be able to create an artificial Sun which is very similar to the Sun in the sky that was once upon a time worshipped as a god!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised."

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"When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility."

Love

"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."

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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."

Experience

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

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"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."

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"The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things."

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"Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even ifyou only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature aname of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he couldcreate one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else."

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"Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written."

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