"The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it."

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, English Theologian

Future, Struggle

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"The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it."

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"Is it possible to have memories from the future? Yes, it is! Just dream about the future and these dreams will take their places on your memories, they will be your memories from the future!"

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"Sometimes the 'day' you're dreaming for never comes. Take control of your future and start now."

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"The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues."

John M. Ford, American Writer

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"The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"What you believe your future holds for you impacts your attitude, decisions and success."

Maddy Malhotra, British Poet

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"The future is the worst thing about the present."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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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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"What a wonderful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that's never been experienced. And how tragic not to consider it. It galls us, we with such a limited future, to see someone brush it aside as meaningless, when it has an endless capacity for meaning, and an endless number of meanings that can be found within it."

David Levithan, American Author

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