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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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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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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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It is the future that creates his present.
All is an interminable chain of longing.
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Escapist—Never.")
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
(Iris Murdoch (b. 1919), British novelist, philosopher. David Crimond, in "Midwinter," pt. 2, The Book and the Brotherhood (1987).)
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There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
(Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author. White-Jacket (1850), ch. 85, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 5, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969).)
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In every naked negro of those thousands, they saw a future customer.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Address Delivered in Concord on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies, August 1, 1884," Miscellanies (1883, repr. 1903).
Emerson reveals the vested interests of some abolitionists.)
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