When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks i

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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You can never plan the future by the past. – Edmund Burke, "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly"

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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. – Blaise Pascal

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My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus – there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball. – David Duchovny

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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our childrens children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously. – Maggie Q

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Everything youve learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. Theres not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

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