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"To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open."
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"We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible."

"We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present."

"Well, maybe I just want to know the future so I can prepare myself for what's coming. If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise, said the seer. If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur."

"Books'll be back, Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. "Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It's not far away. The future looks a lot like the past."

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."

"You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent."

"In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich."
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"Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years."

"Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve."

"The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making."

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college."

"We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with."

"When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die."

"To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open."
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