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Sailing To Byzantium by Robert Silverberg:“He that is in the dance, must needs dance on, though he do but hop”.
Asimov: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic…”
“Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying” — Iain Banks, 1954-2013
“Tko se dima ne nadimi, taj se vatre ne nagrije” (eng. to get warm from the fire, you must suffer the smoke.)
“Burrasca furiusa prestu passa.” (eng. A furious storm passes quickly.)
“Una bedda jurnata nun fa stati.” (eng. One beautiful day doesn't make a summer.)
“Medicus curat, natura sanat”. (eng. Doctor fixes, nature heals)
“Post nubila Phoebus.” (eng. Sun comes after the rain.)
“Svi cvjetovi budućnosti su u sjemenu sadašnjosti.” (eng. All the flowers of the future are in the seed of the present)
“Niko ne zna šta se iza brda valja.” (eng. No one knows what rolls behind the mountain)
“Šišmiš leti kasno-sutra vrijeme krasno!” (eng. The bat flies late, tomorrow wonderful weather.)
“Ne guli kore da ne bude gore!” (eng. Don't peel the bark, it might get worse)
“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“Vatra vatru ne žeže.” (eng. fire does not burn fire)
“Vjetar kad hoće da prestane onda najvećma duše.” (eng. when the wind wants to stop, it blows the hardest)
“Zimnoj vedrini i ljetnoj oblačini nije verovati.” (eng. Blue skies in the winter and clouds in the summer cannot be trusted)
“I voda zube ima.” (Water has teeth too)
“More nevjerno polje.” (Sea, a treacherous field)
“Što više grmi, manje dažda nahodi.” (eng. The more it thunders, the less it rains)
“Što leto pocepa, to zima ne okrpi.” (eng. What the summer rips, the winter doesn't fix)
“Da nema vjetra, pauci bi nebo premrežili.” (eng. If there was no wind, spiders would cover the sky in their webs)
“Što mi je s svijetom, to mi je s cvijetom.” (eng. What happens with my world, happens with my flower)
“Kad grmi, svak se sebe boji. ” (eng. When it thunders, everyone is afraid of themselves)
Make hay when the sun shines
When the summer is winter, and the winter is summer, it is a sorry year.
No chicken will fall into a fire the second time
Life like a fire begins in smoke and end in ashes
It is little use to dig a well after the house has caught fire
If the fire does not burn you the smoke will blacken you
If you have a head of wax you should not go near the fire
Firelight will not let you read fine stories but its warm and you won’t see the dust on the floor
No year has two summers
Better a small fire that warms than a big fire than burns you
Summer will not last forever
During the winter eat long fishes, during the summer eat short fishes.
When the weather changes, the beast sneezes.
When the cat hops around, bad weather is on the way.
Furious storm passes quickly
A sword in the hands of a drunken slave is less dangerous than science in the hands of the unscrupulous.
The nature of rain is always the same but it makes thorns grow in the desert and flowers in the garden
Much science, much sorrow. (Ecclesiastes 1:18)
Experience is the mother of science
We are the authors of our own disasters
The past is the future of the present
He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth.
Whosoever chooses to deny their past can not expect to find a future.
Burn your enemies caravan and you burn you future.
All flowers of the future are in the seed of the present
Tradition must be a springboard to the future, not an easy chair for resting.
The future struggles against being mastered.