"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."

Future, Nothing, Past, Present

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"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."

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"I think the future deserves our faith. But it is hard to argue with Emily Dickinson."

John Green, American Author

Future, Faith, Hope, Truth

"There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past."

Tom Wilson, American Cartoonist

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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!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds."

Charisma Carpenter, American Actress

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

Frederick Douglass, American Author

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"General..behold the future of weaponry.""What the hell I am seeing here, Colonel?""It's..technologart of ancient weaponry, Sir!""It's..what?"

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"I'm about to sing the song for the future."

Stephanie Mills, American Musician

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

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Future, Dream, Control, Now

"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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"Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been."

Man

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"Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows."

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"Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla."

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"A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day."

Age

"The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face."

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"Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt."

Agreement

"The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story."

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"When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?"

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