Quote by William Godwin
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with wha

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image. – William Godwin

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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius… he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. – William Godwin

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Learning
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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions. – William Godwin

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Education
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The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind. – William Godwin

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Happiness
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Future
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Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future. – Blanka Vlasic

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Future

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future – it is not necessarily having to focus on the present. – Bo Bennett

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Future

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort. – Naomi Campbell

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Future

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. – Red Auerbach

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Future

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Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois. – Dick Durbin

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Politics

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then. – John Bacon

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pet

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it. – Brian Eno

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Experience

Romance is dead — it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. – Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons

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Love