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Thucydides : That which makes the splendour of the present and the glory of the future remains for ever unforgotten. #Glory

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Thucydides : "That which makes the splendour of the present and the glory of the future remains for ever unforgotten." #Glory

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Thomas Hobbes: "Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter." #Glory

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Anne Brontë: "I know I owe my all to Thee, O, take this heart I cannot give. Do Thou my Strength my Saviour be; And make me to Thy glory live!" #Glory

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Christian Nevell Bovee: "When all else is lost, the future still remains." #Glory

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Yogi Berra: "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." #Glory

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H G (Herbert George) Wells: ""We were making the future," he said, "and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!"" #Glory

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Robert F Kennedy: "The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present." #Glory

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Erich Fromm: "The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become Golems, they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life." #Glory

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Stephen Jay Gould: "Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since they are not optimal machines. We cannot know their future with certainty, if only because a myriad of quirky functional shifts lie within the capacity of any feature, however well adapted to a present role." #Glory

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Erich Fromm: "In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man’s nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become "Golems”; they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life." #Glory

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Thucydides : "On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of the reach of evidence, and time having robbed most of them of historical value by enthroning them in the region of legend." #Quotations

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Thucydides : "I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time." #Applause

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Thucydides : "Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage." #Alcohol and Alcoholism

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Thucydides : "When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it." #Habit

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Thucydides : "In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right to rest our hopes not on a belief in his blunders, but on the soundness of our provisions. Nor ought we to believe that there is much difference between man and man, but to think that the superiority lies with him who is reared in the severest school." #Friends and Friendship

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Thucydides : "The country on the sea coast, now called Macedonia, was first acquired by Alexander, the father of Perdiccas, and his ancestors, originally Temenids from Argos...The whole is now called Macedonia, and at the time of the invasion of Sitalces, Perdiccas, Alexander's son, was the reigning king." #Ancestry

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Thucydides : "There is, however, no advantage in reflections on the past further than may be of service to the present. For the future we must provide by maintaining what the present gives us and redoubling our efforts; it is hereditary to us to win virtue as the fruit of labour, and you must not change the habit, even though you should have a slight advantage in wealth and resources; for it is not right that what was won in want should be lost in plenty." #Happiness

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Thucydides : "If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a firm refusal will make them clearly understand that they must treat you more as equals." #Obedience

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Thucydides : "It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won." #Glory

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Thucydides : "I could have wished that the reputations of many brave men were not to be imperilled in the mouth of a single individual, to stand or fall according as he spoke well or ill. For it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth. On the one hand, the friend who is familiar with every fact of the story may think that some point has not been set forth with that fullness which he wishes and knows it to deserve; on the other, he who is a stranger to the matter may be led by envy to suspect exaggeration if he hears anything above his own nature. For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity." #Friends and Friendship

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