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Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.
Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.
Approximate author period: c. 1982 AD · modern
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- John O'Donohue
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- Approximate author period: c. 1982 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1956 to 2008; Wikidata Q1239495, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1239495 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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