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futurity

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State of being that is yet to come; future state.

Future time; time to come; the future.

Event to come; a future event.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The days wear out the months and the months wear out the years, and a flux of moments, like an unquiet tide, eats at the black coast of futurity. Mervyn Peake

I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. Thomas Jefferson

I sincerely believe ... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale. Thomas Jefferson

Earth loves the rain, the proud sky loves to give it. The whole world loves to create futurity. I say then to the world, "I share your love." Is this not the source of the phrase, "This loves to happen"? Marcus Aurelius

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. William Samuel Johnson

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