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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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Im not making any bets on the future. – Michelle Williams

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The future is called perhaps, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. – Tennessee Williams

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My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. Ive developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. – Martha Beck

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The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future. – Gifford Pinchot

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The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent peoples private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise. – Jose Serrano

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Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer’s mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation… – Desiderius Erasmus, Adages

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