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We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the fut

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. – Gregory Bateson

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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. – Gregory Bateson

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Learning
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It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. – Gregory Bateson

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Future
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. – C. S. Lewis

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You can never plan the future by the past. – Edmund Burke, "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly"

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Future

Yesterdays the past, tomorrows the future, but today is a gift. Thats why its called the present. – Bil Keane

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Future

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy. – Michael Bloomberg

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Future

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If you have only one passion in life – football – and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself. – Eric Cantona

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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts. – Henri Poincare

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