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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the presen

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. – George Orwell

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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. – George Orwell

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In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures. – Edward de Bono

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. – George Bernard Shaw

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Future

Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you youre in big trouble if youre borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. Weve got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year. – Simon Cowell

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People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind. – Joel Osteen

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The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event – not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics – then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light. – Simon Winchester

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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose. – Author Unknown

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Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what youre going to be thinking tomorrow. – Glen Beaman

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