“Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?” — Diane Setterfield, Bellman & Black
Tag: future
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“The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present.” — Shashi Tharoor, Inglorious Empire
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“The older we become, the more certain our future.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection (1988)
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“A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.” — Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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“Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.” — Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
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“One can look into the future, or one can look at the future. The latter is by far the more instructive.” — R. Scott Bakker, The Warrior-Prophet
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“Careful study leads me to conclude that one of the problems with the future is that good things always take longer than they should, whereas bad things happen right away.” — Theodore Levitt, Thinking About Management
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“The past we can only know from imperfect sources, including our own memories. The future we can’t know, other than that it will originate in the past but then depart from it.” — John Lewis Gaddis, On Grand Strategy
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“It’s only when you’re forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present, how much of daily life is usually spent making plans and attempting to control the future.” — Erica Jong, Fear of Flying