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Quote by Frederick Douglass
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the p

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. – Frederick Douglass

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It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. – Frederick Douglass

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The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. – Bill Cosby

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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following. – Mahatma Gandhi

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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. – Stephen Fry

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Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraqs future is not. – Barack Obama

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