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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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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. – James Thurber

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Dignity
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James Thurber
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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. – James Thurber

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Haste, Hurry
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The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years. – Jacques Yves Cousteau

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Future

The future belongs to crowds. – Don DeLillo

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Future

The future is today. – William Osler

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Future

My wish for the new millennium is for all children… to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before. – Hillary Clinton

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To be doing good deeds is mans most glorious task. – Sophocles

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When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches. – Mireille Enos

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We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols. – Jacques Lacan

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