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- The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
- Besides, what matters, when it comes to self-control, isn't so much willpower as vision-the ability to see the future, so that the long-run consequences of our short-run choices are vividly clear. In that sense, our shortcomings in this arena are really failures of imagination.
- Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
- It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you.
- Josh Lieb, I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President, 2009
- I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know way of judging the future but by the past.
- Patrick Henry (1736 - 1799), Speech to the Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775
- We know nothing of what will happen in the future, but in the analogy of experience.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Speech on the sub-Treasury, December 26, 1839
- Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.
- Henry Luce
- We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain the future now.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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