Quote by Gertrude Stein
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for th

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true. – Gertrude Stein

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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so. – Gertrude Stein

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I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures. – Jane Smiley

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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that. – Barbara Jordan

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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. – Walter Savage Landor

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Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations. – Mario Monti

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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. – Andre Maurois

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We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender. – Winston Churchill

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