Global Soothsayers Peer Into 1993 : Philosophy
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“The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.”
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist (1803-1873)
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“Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet (1802-38)
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“Looking forward always to being happy, it is inevitable that we never are so.”
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher (1623-62)
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“The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.”
Aldous Huxley, English author (1894-1963)
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“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
Clive Staples Lewis, British scholar, critic and novelist (1898-1963).
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