Quote by Frederick Douglass
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly b

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. – Frederick Douglass

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It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in. – Malcolm Turnbull

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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue. – Alfred North Whitehead

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The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open. – Terry Eagleton

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AARP knows the future is bright for a generation thats going to remain healthy and vital for 10, 20, 30, 40 more years. AARP has the information and resources people need throughout their process of reinvention. – Jane Pauley

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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. – Aldous Huxley

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I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. – Woody Allen, on the Ku Klux Klan

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Funeral Blues

– W. H. Auden

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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. – Joseph Joubert

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