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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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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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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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A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
(Christina Stead (1902-1983), Australian novelist. Letty Fox, in Letty Fox: Her Luck, ch. 18 (written 1946, published Virago, n.d.).
Lived and wrote in the U.S. and England.)
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
(Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French novelist. Trans. by William G. Allen. Pensées de Gustave Flaubert, p. 1, Conard (1915).)
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The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.
(Fred G. Gosman (20th century), U.S. author. How to Be a Happy Parent...In Spite of Your Children, ch. 1 (1995).)
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I have been over into the future, and it works.
(Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936), U.S. writer, editor. Quoted in Steffens, Autobiography, ch. 18 (1931).
Remark to financier Bernard Baruch, on his return from the Soviet Union in 1919; he made the same remark in a letter, April 3, 1919.)
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It lives less in the present
Than in the future always,
And less in both together
Than in the past.
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Carpe Diem.")
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I go to school to youth to learn the future.
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "What Fifty Said.")
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