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When there's no future
How can there be sin
We're the flowers in the dustbin
We're the poison in your human machine
We're the future
Your future
God Save the Queen
(The Sex Pistols, British punk band (1976-1979). "God Save the Queen," on the album Never Mind the Bollocks ... Here's the Sex Pistols (1977).)
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My future just passed.
(George Marion, Jr. (1899-1968), U.S. songwriter. "My Future Just Passed," Safety in Numbers, Famous Music Corp. (1930).
Music composed by Richard A. Whiting (1891-1938).)
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In the rivers north of the future.
(Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920-1970), Austrian poet. Trans. 1971, E.P.Dutton (1971). Speech-Grille and Selected Poems, "In the Rivers," (1965).)
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We are trying to live
as if we were an experiment
conducted by the future
(Marge Piercy (b. 1936), U.S. poet, novelist, and political activist. "Rough Times," lines 1-3 (1976).
On women's trying to construct lives that break with traditional sex roles.)
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The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 375, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection, New York (1991).)
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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
(Susan Sontag (b. 1933), U.S. essayist. "'Thinking Against Oneself': Reflections on Cioran," Styles of Radical Will (1969).)
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
(John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), British economist. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, bk. 4, ch. 12, sct. 5 (1936).)
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