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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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The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
(Tristan Tzara (1896-1963), Romanian-born French Dada theorist. repr. In Lampisteries (1963). "Note on Poetry," Dada 4/5 (Zurich, May 1919).)
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The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.
(Sylvia Ann Hewitt (20th century), economist. A Lesser Life, ch. 6 (1986).)
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We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
(Gόnther Grass (b. 1927), German author. Interview in New Statesman & Society (London, June 22, 1990).)
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A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical.
(Juliet Mitchell (b. 1940), New Zealand author. "Women—The Longest Revolution," New Left Review (London, Nov./Dec. 1966).)
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We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?
(Margaret Atwood (b. 1939), Canadian novelist, poet, critic. The Handmaid's Tale, ch. 1 (1986).)
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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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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
(Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), U.S. author. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906).)
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