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Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

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There's much to be said for immortality – for example, the saving on funeral expenses. And no more nonsense about "legacies," and about how anything you've accomplished will "live on after you."

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You can never plan the future by the past.

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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
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