Quote by Samuel Johnson
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

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Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. – Samuel Johnson

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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. – Samuel Johnson

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By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nations history, the Presidents policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future. – Paul Ryan

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I have seen the future and it is very much like the present – only longer. – Kehlog Albran

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Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future. – Jaron Lanier

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The worst thing that can happen in a democracy – as well as in an individuals life – is to become cynical about the future and lose hope. – Hillary Clinton

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Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. Theres the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community – not the community coming to the concert – they say, Wow! I didnt know that this music was so amazing! – Gustavo Dudamel

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Fame and success are very different things. – Enya

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Those who can, do, those who cant teach; and those who can do neither, administer. – Calvin Calverley

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