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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The speaker prefers looking ahead to looking back. “Dreams of the future” points to hopes, possibilities, and imagined progress, while “the history of the past” refers to what has already happened. The comparison presents the future as more appealing than the past, without denying that the past exists or matters.
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- Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters, Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello
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