A Quote by Lincoln Barnett

The written word is the link between the past and the future.

Lincoln Barnett

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Between Future Link Past Word Written Written Word

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Lincoln Barnett
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February 12, 1909 - September 8, 1979

When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.

Ma Jian

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

We're stuck. We're stuck between the East and the West. Between the past and the future. On the one hand there are the secular modernists, so proud of the regime they constructed, you cannot breathe a critical word. They've got the army and half of the state on their side. On the other hand there are the conventional traditionalist, so infatuated with the Ottoman past, you cannot breathe a critical word. They've got the general public and the remaining half of the state on their side.

Elif Safak

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

Fernando Pessoa

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

Hussein of Jordan

Before one is successful that is before any one is ready to pay money for anything you do then you are certain that every word you have written is an important word to have written and that any word you have written is as important as any other word and you keep everything you have written with great care.

Gertrude Stein

It is the link from the present to the past that gives us a spirit to address the future.

Midge Costanza

Integration is a word of the past, the word of the future and the word of the present is contribution.

Tariq Ramadan

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

Silvio Berlusconi

All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you. The speech they weave is a link between you and your human siblings. The consequences that cause sorrow and rapture are the seeds that the past has sown in the field of the soul, and by which the future shall profit.

Khalil

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

Daniel Webster

If you Google some sites about the link between vaccines and autism, you can very quickly find that Google is repeating back to you your view about whether that link exists and not what scientists know, which is that there isn't a link between vaccines and autism. It's a feedback loop that's invisible.

Eli Pariser

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

John Maynard Keynes

By gathering seed from trees which are close to our homes and close to our hearts, helping them to germinate and grow, and then planting them back into their original landscapes, we can all make a living link between this millennium and the next, a natural bridge from the past to the future.

Chris Baines

Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS.