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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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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. – George Orwell

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A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. – George Orwell

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The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country. – J. Robert Oppenheimer

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The future is purchased by the present. – Samuel Johnson

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