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Lillian Smith

"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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"Study the past, if you would divine the future."

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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."

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

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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"Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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"Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now."

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"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."
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"Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve."
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"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."
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"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college."
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"We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with."
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"The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome."
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"Rich folks always talk hard times."
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"When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die."
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Lillian Smith
"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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