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  • In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Past Quotes , Giving Quotes
  • The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes
  • In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they have occurred more often, and 2008 was the most damaging of them all to date. If we have moved back to a regime of regular financial crises - like the one we had from the 1870s to the 1930s - then our economic future will be very different from our recent past.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan M. Taylor Quotes , Country Quotes , Past Quotes