"If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there."

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"If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there."

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"Study the past, if you would divine the future."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"The future and eternity are two entirely different things."

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"You have to change your thinking if you desire to have a future different from your present."

Germany Kent, Roman Soldier

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

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Seeds you plant today determine the harvest you reap tomorrow."

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Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it."

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"You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas."

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"Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others."

Civilization

"Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men."

History

"What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!"

Nature

"Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live."

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"Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood."

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"We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation."

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"There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it."

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"It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this."

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