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We must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library
Futurity is the great concern of mankind
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience
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