The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past. Lewis Thomas
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
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Albert Camus
You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
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Brian Tracy
Love is the only future God offers.
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Victor Hugo
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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Jonathan Safran Foer
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
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Chuck Palahniuk
More Quotes By Lewis Thomas
Get rich. Live life to the fullest. Destroy the world.
The future is travelling furiously toward you at incredible speed and will beat you to your destination to surprise you by its resemblance to what you have already seen.
Every science fiction is a reading of the period that produced it.
I like pros, especially when it comes to tennis and rent boys” – and here I’m really wondering if the pun on prose consolidates Bruce’s feeling toward it versus poetry under the sign of sex, which Bruce sometimes pays for, in order to direct us...
The personality is determined by a variety of interventions that enter the head like big symbolic flags in the conquered soil which seldom knows its defeat.
