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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous t

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybodys guess. – James Thurber

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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. – James Thurber

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Truth
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James Thurber
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From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. After dinner, the men moved into the living room. I explained to the professor that this was Rosss way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth. – James Thurber

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Grammar
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The girl with a future avoids a man with a past. – Evan Esar

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Future

My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be. – Susana Martinez

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Future

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted its the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future. – Muhammad Yunus

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Future

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make? – Yuri Milner

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Future

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Journalism consists largely in saying Lord James is dead to people who never knew Lord James was alive. – G. K. Chesterton

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Journalism

We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world. – Ed Markey

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Technology

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. – Anaïs Nin

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Self-Discovery

As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Faith