"We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future. Spinoza, I think, pointed out that we ourselves can make experience valuable when, by imagination and reason, we turn it into foresight."
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Tomorrow Is Now (1963), p. xv
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