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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long i

The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. – Edward Young

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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. – Edward Young

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Death
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. – Edward Young

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Death
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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, Wars glorious art, and gives immortal fame. – Edward Young

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War
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that cant sustain them. – David Attenborough

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True revolutionaries are like God – they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. Ive got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. Theres no future in it. – Sparky Anderson

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Future

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. – Charles de Montesquieu

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Mans greatness lies in his power of thought. – Blaise Pascal

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If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you dont get all the facts, it cant be right. – Bernard Baruch

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Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home thats broken. – Mike Huckabee

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