Future

== Linear and cyclic culture ==
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| quote  = "The trouble with the future is that it's so much less knowable than the past." 
| source =&nbsp;[[John Lewis Gaddis]], ''The Landscape of History''.<ref>{{cite book |title= The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past |url= https://archive.org/details/landscapehistory00gadd_853 |url-access= limited |last= Gaddis|first= John Lewis|year= 2002|publisher= Oxford University Press|location= New York|isbn= 978-0-19-517157-0|pages= [https://archive.org/details/landscapehistory00gadd_853/page/n70 56]}}
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The linear view of time (common in [[Western thought]]) draws a stronger distinction between past and future than does the more common [[cyclic time]] of cultures such as India, where past and future can coalesce much more readily.<ref>
{{cite book
| last1                 = Ridderbos
| first1                = Katinka
| title                 = Time
| url                   = https://books.google.com/books?id=muoM9H8Z8o8C
| series                = Darwin College Lectures
| issue                 = 14
| publisher             = Cambridge University Press
| date      = 2002
| page                  = 2
| isbn                  = 978-0521782937
| access-date            = 2015-09-03
| quote                 = In a cyclic universe, each event that lies in the past of the present moment, also lies in its future. 
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