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would fain see Posterity do something for us.?" | |
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Joseph Addison
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| "(In 1903) The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical
science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established
that the possibility of their ever being supplemented in consequence of
new discoveries is exceedingly remote." | |
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Albert Abraham Michelson
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| "A generation which ignores history has no past ? and no
future." | |
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Robert Anson Heinlein
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| "Always remember that the future comes one day at a time." | |
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Dean Acheson
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| "America has never forgotten ? and will never forget ? the nobler
things that brought her into being and that light her path ? the path that
was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago.... How young she is!
It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom ? the
clothing of the grave ? that some people believe she is already fitted
for." | |
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Bernard Mannes Baruch
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| "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards
Bethlehem to be born?" | |
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William Butler Yeats
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| "As for the Future, your task is not to foresee, but to enable
it." | |
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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| "As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the
future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right
now." | |
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Suzuki Roshi
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| "Descartes commanded the future from his study more than Napoleon
from the throne." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "Fear not for the future, weep not for the past." | |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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| "FUTURE, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our
friends are true, and our happiness is assured." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "G"Quon wrote, there is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It
is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not
against powers and principalities. It is against chaos and despair. Greater
than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against
this peril we can never surrender." | |
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| "God will not suffer man to have knowledge of things to come; for if
he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and
understanding of his adversity, he would be senseless." | |
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Saint Augustine of Hippo
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| "I desire no future that will break the ties with the past." | |
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George Eliot
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| "I don?t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it." | |
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Ray Bradbury
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| "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the
past." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "I look to the future because that"s where I"m going to spend the
rest of my life." | |
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George Burns
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| "If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one." | |
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John Galsworthy
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| "If you have to forecast, forecast often." | |
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Edgar R. Fiedler
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| "If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you"re dwelling
in the past. If you"re not reaching forward to any growth or future,
you might as well be dead." | |
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Wynn Bullock
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| "Isn"t it a shame that future generations can"t be here to see all
the wonderful things we"re doing with their money?" | |
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Earl Wilson
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| "It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the
future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one
minute ago." | |
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Jim Bishop
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| "It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear." | |
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Edward Henry Harriman
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| "Just remember?when you think all is lost, the future remains." | |
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Bob Goddard
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| "Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his
present." | |
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Roger Ward Babson
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| "My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of
my life there." | |
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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| "My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to
experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides." | |
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Gene Oliver
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| "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to,
with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the
present." | |
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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| "Never make forecasts, especially about the future." | |
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Samuel Goldwyn
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| "No matter what your past has been you have a spotless future." | |
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Unknown
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| "No work of love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of
heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have
no capacity for living now." | |
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Alan Watts
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| "One faces the future with one?s past." | |
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Pearl S. Buck
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| "Our task now is not to fix the blame for the past, but fix the
course for the future." | |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| "Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making
it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly
possible." | |
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Hannah Arendt
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| "Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the
present." | |
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Albert Camus
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| "Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take
thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof." | |
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The Bible
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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 rear view
mirror." | |
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Herb Brody
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| "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a
time." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." | |
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Alan Kay
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| "The distinction between past, present, and future is only a
stubbornly persistent illusion." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "The empires of the future are empires of the mind." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "The future belongs to those who prepare for it today." | |
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Malcolm X
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| "The future influences the present just as much as the past." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "The future is like heaven ? everyone exalts it, but no one wants to
go there now." | |
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James Baldwin
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| "The future is made up of the same stuff as the present." | |
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Simone Weil
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| "The future is purchased by the present." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "The greatest gift ... is the realization that life does not consist
either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and
it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by
which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently
expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it
offers, little or much, life is now?this day?this hour." | |
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Charles Macomb Flandrau
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| "The only thing we know about the future is that it will be
different." | |
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Peter F. Drucker
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| "The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the
present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it
is the past, and it is the future." | |
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Alfred North Whitehead
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| "The past, the present and the future are really one ? they are
today." | |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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| "The record of the last century has been impressive. The problem for
the future is to keep our capitalism dynamic ? continue to raise living
standards and yet to reduce, as much as possible, the human costs as
reflected in insecurity and instability." | |
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W. Walter Williams
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| "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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| "The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to
be." | |
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Paul Ambroise Valéry
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| "The trouble with out times is that the future is not what it used to
be." | |
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Paul Valery
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| "The trouble with the future is, that it usually arrives when you
least expect it." | |
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Arnold H. Glasow
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| "There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil
through which I might not see." | |
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Omar Khayyam
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| "Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who
live to the present." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "To live only for some future goal is shallow. It?s the sides of the
mountain that sustain life, not the top." | |
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Robert M. Pirsig
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| "To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it
and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking
forward." | |
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Margaret Fairless Barber
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| "Trust no future, howe"er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, act in the living present! Heart within, and God o"erhead!" | |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| "Upper classes are a nation"s past; the middle class is its
future." | |
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Ayn Rand
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| "We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the
accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common sense, but
we anticipate the future with transcendental senses. In our sanest moments
we find ourselves naturally expecting or prepared for far greater changes
than any which we have experienced within the period of distinct memory,
only to be paralleled by experiences which are forgotten." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build
our youth for the future." | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| "We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our
own hands. We shall need courage, energy and determination, but above all,
we shall need faith?faith in ourselves, in our communities and in our
country." | |
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Thomas E. Dewey
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| "When all else is lost, the future still remains." | |
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Christian Nestell Bovée
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| "When I look at the future, it?s so bright it burns my eyes." | |
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Oprah Winfrey
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| "When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those
who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what
happened." | |
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John M. Richardson, Jr.
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| "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or
lose." | |
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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| "You can never plan the future by the past." | |
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Edmund Burke
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| "You can only predict things after they"ve happened." | |
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Eugene Ionesco
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