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Quote by Eugenio Montale
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance a

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant? – Eugenio Montale

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The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical. – Eugenio Montale

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Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future. – Steve Jobs

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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. – George Eliot

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As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually. – Chris Ware

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Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible. – Alan Dundes

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