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" The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. "

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" Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future. "

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" I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that's true, there's no such thing as a past or a future - it's all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future. "

" Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. "

" You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. "

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" A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be. "

" The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness. "

" We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future. "

" But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present. "

" We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction. "

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" I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt. "

" Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free. "

" The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider! "

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" Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection? "

" A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. "

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" The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope. "

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