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Quote by Paul Valery
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery

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War: a massacre of people who dont know each other for the profit of people who know each other but dont massacre each other. – Paul Valery

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Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing. – Paul Valery

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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. – Benjamin Disraeli

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The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done. – George MacDonald

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Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. – Charles Caleb Colton

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School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobodys perfect, so why practice? – Billie Joe Armstrong

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