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

John Green, American Author

Future, Faith, Hope, Truth

"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

Future, Memories, Dream, Truth

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

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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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

Future, Belief, Mindset, Success

"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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"Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten."

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"A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail."

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