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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
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
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
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
Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future. — Uta Hagen
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. — Will Durant
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
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
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
Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been. — Martin Heidegger
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
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
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
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
However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the plain… — Louis Althusser
Relations of production are first reproduced by the materiality of the processes of production and circulation. But it should not be forgotten that ideological relations… — Louis Althusser
It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how… — Fredric Jameson
I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the… — John F. Kennedy
The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax… — John F. Kennedy

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