"Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past."

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"Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past."

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"The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

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"Every day we live determine our future life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Your future depends of the choices you make today. The future for this reason can be predicted by your day to day living."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"The future we seek in life lies in us"."

Abdulazeez Henry Musa, Nigerian Author

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"This cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future."

John Galliano, British Designer

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"I've never been able to predict the future of anything."

Bob Edwards, American Journalist

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

John Green, American Author

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"We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Whichever point you reach in the future, that will be a miracle! If you reach tomorrow, that will be a miracle! If you reach next week or next year, that will be a miracle! Your every arrival to any point in the future time is a great victory!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training."

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"It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless."

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"Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development."

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"The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does."

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"The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion."

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"A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life."

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"Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet."

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"However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible."

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"Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities."

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"The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture."

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