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Frederick Douglass

"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."

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"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."

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

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

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

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"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!"

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"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!"

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"Wishes are memories coming from our future!"

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"The future is purchased by the present."

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"We are the future, we are your children.We will make this world a peaceful garden."

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"I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up that you can't make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith. I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again."

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"In the future, you will always encounter the past!"

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"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."
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