People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

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For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don't back down. ― Dave Ramsey

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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories. ― W. Somerset Maugham

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

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I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich. – Jim Carrey

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Beauty is a whore, I like money better. ― Michael Cunningham

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Only the present is real. The past and the future exist only in our imagination. ― Oliver Markus

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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time.

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. – Andre Gide

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The future depends on what you do today. - Mahatma Gandhi

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