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Between the two of us, we went to a lot of graduation ceremonies last spring. Students, children of friends, a teenage nephew ... even a 5-year old godson put on cap and gown to progress from pre-school to kindergarten. And, we heard a lot of quotations about the future. Not so many from the kindergarteners, actually--they were too busy rushing the cookie table to offer much in the way of philosophy and vision.
Quotes and more quotes. "The future is yours for the taking" was a favorite. Proust, T.S. Eliot, Ambrose Bierce, friends and relatives of the speakers--they all had a lot of ideas about the world to come, from what we heard. Even the spirit of Doris Day was ...