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At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket,…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a…
— Margaret Atwood
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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
— Uta Hagen
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In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity, etc., without having…
— John Dewey
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In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more…
— Eugene V. Debs
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To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.
— Amitav Ghosh
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The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness…
— Carl Jung
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At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a…
— Carl Jung
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But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
— Sigmund Freud
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
— Will Durant
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The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the…
— Max Horkheimer
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So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the…
— Karl Marx
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As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of…
— Karl Marx
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Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
— Martin Heidegger
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It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching…
— Michel Foucault
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Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life…
— Hannah Arendt
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Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had…
— Hannah Arendt
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The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a vehicle which we…
— Hannah Arendt
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