"I have seen the future, and it is still in the future."

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Source : Letter to Marie Howe, 3 Apr. 1919. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations notes: "Steffens had composed the expression before he had even arrived in Russia."

James Gleick

“Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.”

Source : "The war on drugs and alcohol is a war against human nature" by Lewis Lapham, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2012.
“To be a Christian, you canâ€™t go with the flow. You have to go by the Word of God.”
“Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character.”
“As a Magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards is pretty simple: It's practice, it's training and it's experimenting while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. And that's what magic is to me.”

Source : "How I held my breath for 17 minutes". TED Talk, www.ted.com. October 2009.
“These are the most arrogant ***** in the world starting with Belichick on down.”
“I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.”
“There are young people today who feel that we shouldn't have developed the atomic bomb, that it was a mistake. Through no fault of their own, they don't have this sense of history. They didn't live through this most terrifying period when we thought we were losing the race with Adolf Hitler.”

Source : Source: www.achievement.org
“This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.”

Source : James Weldon Johnson (2004). “Writings”

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