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English Reading # 2
We’re Just Beginning

“We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite…”
I do not know who wrote these words, but I have always liked them as reminder that the
future can be anything we want to make it. We can take the mysterious, hazy future and
carve out of it anything that we can imagines, just as a sculptor carves a statue from a
shapeless stone.
We are all in the position of the farmer. If we plants a good seed, we reap a good
harvest. If our seed is poor and full of weeds, we reap a useless crop. If we plants nothing
at all, we harvest nothing at all.
I want the future to be better than the past. I don’t want it contaminated by the
mistakes and errors with which history is filled. We should all be concerned about the
future because that is where we will spend the remainder of our lives.
The past is gone and static. Nothing we can do will change it. The future is before us
and dynamic. Everything we do will affect it. Tach day brings with it new frontiers, in
our homes and in our business, if we will only recognize them. We are just at the beginning
of the progress in every field of human endeavor.

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