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Quote by Joseph Joubert
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. – Joseph Joubert

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Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: thats a good thing born from a bad thing. – Joseph Joubert

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Emotions
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Joseph Joubert
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. – Joseph Joubert

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Mystery
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My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. – Charles Kettering

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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. – Isaac Asimov

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Future

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future. – Emile M. Cioran

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I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way. – Susan Orlean

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