„I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to “succeed” — and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future.“

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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„Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.“
— Malcolm X
„The future is better than the past. Despite the crepehangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands…with tools…with horse sense and science and engineering.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague there was no sense talking about it.“
— Hunter S. Thompson
„I was thinking of 'duh?' in the sense of 'a sentence containing several words more than three letters long, and possibly requiring general knowledge or a sense of history that extends past last Tuesday, has been used in my presence.“
— Terry Pratchett