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The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it s

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. – Jim Bishop

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Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. – Jim Bishop

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Daughters
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A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. – Jim Bishop

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Age
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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. – Euripides, Alexander

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There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday. – Robert Nathan, So Love Returns

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. – Edna Ferber

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I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. – John Berger

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I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil. – Sylvester Stallone

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