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Quote by Joachim of Fiore
We will not be what we have been, but will begin to be other.
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The quote says that the future will not simply repeat the past. “We” will change and become something different from what we have been. It presents change as a shift in identity or condition, marking a new beginning rather than a continuation of the old one.
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- Spaces of Utopia: An Electronic Journal, 2nd series, no. 2
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