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Quote by James Thurber
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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Im 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, Id only be 48. Thats the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. – James Thurber

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Were trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. Its going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of 8 Mile. – Justin Bieber

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Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future. – Michael Mandelbaum

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If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyones included, otherwise youre just going to have more of the same in the future. – will.i.am

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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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