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Future |
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| "The future you shall know when it has
come; before then forget it." |
| -- Æschylus (525-456 BC), Greek tragic
dramatist |
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| "We can pay our debt to the past by
putting the future in debt to ourselves." |
| -- Sir John Buchan (1875-1940), Scottish
writer, government official |
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| "The future is made of the same stuff as
the present." |
| -- Simone Weil |
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| "The future is more uncertain than the
present.' |
| -- Walt Whitman |
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| "In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit
the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which
no longer exists." |
| -- Eric Hoffer (1902-83),
American philosopher |
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| "Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware
of it; it is the future that makes laws for us today." |
| -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
(1844-1900), German philosopher |
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| "We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but
by the responsibility for our future." |
| -- George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950), Irish-born British playwright |
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“The
farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
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--
Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British Prime Minister
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| "Desire and hope will push us on toward
the future." |
| -- Michel de Montaigne |
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| "A day... is a miniature
eternity." |
| --
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "The danger of the past was
that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that me may become robots." |
| --
Erich Fromm
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| "Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past." |
| --
Percey
Byshe Shelley
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| "Let him who would enjoy a good future
waste none of his present." |
| -- Roger Ward Babson (1875-1967), American
financial statistician |
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| "There are in the end
three things that last: Faith, Hope, and Love, and the greatest of these is
love." |
| --
St. Paul
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| "Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is
a nightmare." |
| -- Japanese Proverb
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| "Real generosity towards
the future lies in giving all to the present." |
| --
Albert Camus
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| "I never think of the
future. It comes soon enough." |
| --
Albert Einstein
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| "Yesterday is not ours to
recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." |
| --
Lyndon B. Johnson
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| "I believe the future is
only the past again, entered through another gate." |
| --
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
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| "The architecture of our
future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up." |
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-- George Lamming
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| "Do we not all spend the
greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?" |
| --
Maurice Maeterlinck
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"Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine
day." |
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-- French Proverb
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| "The future belongs to those who believe in the
beauty of their dreams. "
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--
Eleanor Roosevelt |
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"We
should all be concerned about the future, because we will have to spend
the rest of our lives there." |
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--
Charles
Kettering |
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| "The future is like heaven, everyone
exalts it, but no one wants to go there now." |
| -- James Arthur Baldwin (1924-87), American
writer |
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| "Real generosity toward the future
consists in giving all to what is present." |
| -- Albert Camus (1913-60), French novelist |
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"All
the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind." |
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--
Sir
Winston Churchhill |
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| "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That
means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the
distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly
persistent illusion." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
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| "The future is a fiction we create to
understand the present. The future we see in the present will never
be the future that happens. Whatever does happen in the future, one
thing is certain. It will only happen in the present. When a
quarterback throws a pass to an end cutting on a slant pattern, the
pass is thrown to a defined relative position to the end's present
position." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002),
American writer |
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| "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they
exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." |
| -- Alan Watts |
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| "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow
in Australia." |
| -- Charles Schultz |
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| "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present
controls the past." |
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-- George Orwell |
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| "I like the dreams of the future better
than the history of the past." |
| -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd US
President |
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| "The best thing about the future is that
it comes one day at a time." |
| -- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) |
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| "Our imagination is the only limit to what
we can hope to have in the future." |
| -- Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958),
American electrical engineer |
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| "The illiterate of the future will not be
the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know
how to learn." |
| --Alvin Toffler |
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| "In the future everyone will be
world-famous for fifteen minutes." |
| -- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) |
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"Science and technology
revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our
response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change,
history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with
habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and
future will continue to form our lives." |
| -- Arthur M. Sclesinger, Jr. |
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| "I would sum up my fear
about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything
has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen
again...the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul." |
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-- J. G. Ballard
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| "We must respect the past, and mistrust
the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the
future." |
| -- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
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| "Telling the future by looking at the past
assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car
by looking in the rearview mirror." |
| -- Herb Brody |
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| "Ours is the responsibility of conserving,
transmitting, rectifying, and expanding the heritage of values we
have received that those who come after us may receive it more solid
and secure, more widely accessible and more generously shared than
we have received it." |
| -- John Dewey |
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| "The wise man must remember that while he
is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the
future." |
| --
Herbert Spencer |
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| "If a man carefully examines his thoughts
he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His
well-being is always ahead." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| "I would feel more optimistic about a
bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can
outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her
seniority." |
| -- E. B. White (1899-1985), American writer,
humorist |
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