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I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps t...

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One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important...

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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift ...

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Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us...

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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with stic...

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Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly ...

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There was something called Christianity.

There is a case and a strong case for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move thr...

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Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But wha...

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My friend, let us enjoy the present and give no thought to the evils of the future.

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Alexandre DumasThe Count Of Monte Cristo / Le Comte De Monte Cristo: English French Parallel Text Edition

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt wh...

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equip...

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Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?

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Alice WalkerThe Way Forward is with a Broken Heart

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting...

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Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does ...

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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is...

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I should only look back at moments that were disparaging, look down upon, negative for me - moments ...

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Sometimes this book stays in the present, other times I try to cut myself in half and count the ring...

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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

The future is hidden even from those who make it.

Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Ge...

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Mrs. Palin is history in a dress. And her script is straight out of Hollywood - like those teen movi...

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You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is...

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Andrew SolomonThe Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and ...

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It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more...

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Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediat...

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The world will be saved by one or two people.

I do not want to recollect. I should be afraid of preventing the future and of allowing the past to ...

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In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

...a great future behind him, already

As the future ripens in the past,so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves...

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Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man ...

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The good past is so far away and the near past is so horrible and the future is so perilous, that th...

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MASHA. Just think, I am already beginning to forget her face. People will not remember us either. Th...

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It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to futu...

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When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our so...

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You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our futur...

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This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since ...

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I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

One thing seems certain. Our galaxy is now in the brief springtime of its life—a springtime made glo...

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The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible

Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this ...

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Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its ki...

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For the last century, almost all top political appointments [on the planet Earth] had been made by r...

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The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, w...

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Feeling extremely foolish, the acting representative of Homo sapiens watched his First Contact strid...

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It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to l...

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Arthur Conan DoyleSherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories

It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand ...

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But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

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Arundhati RoyBroken Republic: Three Essays

It wasn't what lay at the end of her road that frightened Ammu as much as the nature of the road its...

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Arundhati RoyThe God of Small Things

History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.

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Arundhati RoyThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

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Arundhati RoyThings That Can and Cannot Be Said

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the found...

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Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think,...

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Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go...

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Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go...

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Audrey NiffeneggerThe Time Traveler's Wife

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist...

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Knowing the future is different from being told what I like.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do...

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Upper classes are a nation's past the middle-class is its future.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches ...

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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to gener...

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As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us...

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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time...

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We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that w...

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What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and po...

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On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're goin...

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We say we value the legacy we leave the next generation and then saddle that generation with mountai...

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Barack ObamaThe Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must ...

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Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can t...

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The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider...

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Till the sun grows cold And the stars are old And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.

In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept espe...

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Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and phi...

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Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally creat...

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I see a future where states compete with one another to see which can be the most efficient, and whe...

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I see a future where American companies lead the world in the production of hybrid-plug in cars and ...

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I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environment...

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Those who fear life are already three parts dead.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

One must care about a world one will not see.

I have always been driven by some distant music-a battle hymn no doubt-for I have been at war from t...

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In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establi...

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The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to det...

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Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable ...

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Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody...

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I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can d...

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God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.