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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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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. – 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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Run to meet the future or its going to run you down. – Anthony J. DAngelo

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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people. – Alice Walker

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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it wont one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. – Jean Rostand

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Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. – Andrew Carnegie

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By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry. – Jack Dempsey

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The beauty of jazz is that its malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities. – Pat Metheny

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The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876

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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. – Albert Einstein

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