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The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in read more
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
 With mortal crisis doth portend,
 My days to appropinque an end.  
 With mortal crisis doth portend,
 My days to appropinque an end. 
You can never tell what the future has in store for you.
You can never tell what the future has in store for you.
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that read more
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the read more
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
 Dear Land to which Desire forever flees;
 Time doth no present to our grasp allow,
  Say in read more 
 Dear Land to which Desire forever flees;
 Time doth no present to our grasp allow,
  Say in the fixed Eternal shall we seize
   At last the fleeting Now? 
 There shall be no more snow
 No weary noontide heat,
  So we lift our trusting eyes
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 There shall be no more snow
 No weary noontide heat,
  So we lift our trusting eyes
   From the hills our Fathers trod:
    To the quiet of the skies:
     To the Sabbath of our God.