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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the fut

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. – Ruth Benedict

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Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make. – Ruth Benedict

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Racism
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Ruth Benedict
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I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world. – Ruth Benedict

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strength
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Future
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The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years. – Jacques Yves Cousteau

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Future

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Future

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. – Bernard Baruch

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Future

Id like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future. – Garth Brooks

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Future

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[D]reams, and predictions of astrology…. ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside. – Francis Bacon, "Of Prophecies"

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The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate. – Christopher Fry

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I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government. – Sonia Sotomayor

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