"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."
-Don DeLillo
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"I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts."
-Don DeLillo
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"People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power."
-Don DeLillo
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"People who are powerless make an open theater of violence."
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"I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it."
-Don DeLillo
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"There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it."
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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
-George Orwell
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
-Jim Rohn
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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