Quote by Julien Benda
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning mans future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring. – Julien Benda

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And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. – Julien Benda

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Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace. – Julien Benda

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Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the publics imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars. – Paul Davies

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. – John Maynard Keynes

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I look forward to the future – and going into the studio to make new music. – Diana Ross

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Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone elses hands, but not you. – Jim Rohn

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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana

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My Lord, I sorrow to learn that I am so timorous of heart and to learn that my Lord could be so forgetful of the elementary facts of nature, and also of mankind, that he believes when the lesser joins the greater, it can remain itself and maintain it – Andrew Fletcher

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Widows are divided into two classes — the bereaved and relieved. – Victor Robinson

Funny is funny is funny. – Bob Newhart

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