Children are the future not because they will one day be adults but because humanity is becoming more and more a child, because childhood is the image of the future.

道常无为而无不为。侯王若能守之，万物将自化。

Milan Kundera

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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Topic

Children Social change The future

Author

Milan Kundera

Source

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Medium

Novel

Language

Czech

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Czech Republic Europe

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Original Citation

Kundera, Milan. Kniha smíchu a zapomnění. 1979.

Current Citation

Kundera, Milan. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Translated by Michael Henry Heim. 1980. Harper Perennial Classics, 1999.

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We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing.

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Time
1973 1970s 20th century
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Original Citation

Dean, John. "Cancer on the Presidency." 21 March 1973, Oval Office, White House, Washington, DC, USA. Presidental briefing.

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Don't stop thinking about tomorrow,
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It'll be here better than before,
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Time
1977 1970s 20th century
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