| Study the past, if you would divine the future. -- Confucius |
| Author:
ConfuciusEra:
-551 |
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| But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state? -- Alexander Pope |
| Author:
Pope, AlexanderEra:
1688 |
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| The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophesies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. -- Eric Hoffer |
| Author:
Hoffer, EricEra:
1902 |
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| Peace will come soon and come to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have to be proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their cases and pay the cost. -- Abraham Lincoln |
| Author:
Lincoln, AbrahamEra:
1809 |
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| Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness. -- Edward Young |
| Author:
Young, EdwardEra:
1683 |
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| Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. -- François La Rochefoucauld |
| Author:
La Rochefoucauld, FrançoisEra:
1613 |
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| The future ... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. -- Elwyn Brooks White |
| Author:
White, E. B.Era:
1899 |
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