As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We think of our future as anticipated memories.
The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
The future comes quickly. Before you know it, you turn around and it's tomorrow.
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.
We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
I believe you can remember the future as much as the past.
The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.
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