"The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought."
-Edward Young
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"The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.“
-Edward Young
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"The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss."
-Edward Young
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"One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame."
-Edward Young
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"The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety."
-Edward Young
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"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired."
-Edward Young
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"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die."
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"I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show."
-Rickie Lee Jones
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"Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature."
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"There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice."
-Boris Kodjoe
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"If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive."
-Susan Rice
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"And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe."
-Clifford D. Simak
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"The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation."
-Lee Myung-bak
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