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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. – Samuel Johnson

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Change
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Samuel Johnson
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. – Samuel Johnson

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Money
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Ive noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if its far enough in the future. – Brian Eno

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The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, well do what weve always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities. – Octavia Butler

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Life is hopefully long, so I dont know what the future will bring. – Bethenny Frankel

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But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one. – Marco Rubio

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It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible. – J.J. Bentley

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