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• The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery
• Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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• The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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• Our judgements judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
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• The future is not what it used to be. (It never was.)
• The future isn't what it used to be.
• If the future isn't what it used to be, does that mean that the past is subject to change in times to come?
• A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. -- Paul Valery