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“We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.”
Lewis Thomas quotes (American Physician and Writer, 1913-1993)
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“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.”
William Allen White quotes (American Journalist known as the Sage of Emporia, whose mixture of tolerance, optimism, liberal Republicanism and provincialism made him the epitome of the thoughtful small-town American. 1868-1944)
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“Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.”

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“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past”
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes (English Romantic Poet whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language. 1792-1822)
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“From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.”
Victor Hugo quotes (French romantic Poet, Novelist and Dramatist, 1802-1885)
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“If you are afraid of your future, you don't have a present”
James Petersen quotes
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“And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead”
Philip Robison quotes
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“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Marcus Aurelius quotes (Roman emperor, best known for his Meditations on Stoic philosophy, AD 121-180)
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“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”
Alice Walker quotes (American writer, b.1944)
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“There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.”
Robert Jones Burdette quotes
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“The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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