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"The most tragic thing about the future is that it may not come into being!"

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

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

"When your dream comes true, have another one! Your dream-box must never remain empty!"

"Simeon had to agree that his future plans, although quite grand, were like pictures painted in fog. Nothing he could put his finger on. No dream ever remained unchanged long enough to take on any weight or substance, just a notion of something better waiting for him somewhere in the future."

"Since the future is unknown, no path can take you to the known!"

"Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!"
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"The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility."

"The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally."

"In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend."

"A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations."

"Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith."

"The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable."

"Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest."

"A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples."

"There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults."

"The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule."
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