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The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happ...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that un...

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I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job c...

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Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

From orphanages to space colonies, it was all shallow but endearingly enthusiastic futurism. Gingric...

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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, ...

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The new world is as yetbehind the veil of destinyIn my eyes, howeverits dawn has been unveiled

I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, ra...

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The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones...

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Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and ...

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How can we prepare for the future if we won’t acknowledge the past?

All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

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N.T. WrightSurprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their...

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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm ...

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If the past, by bringing surprises, did not resemble the past previous to it (what I call the past's...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebFooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

Is it a fact – or have I dreamt it – that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a...

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He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not ...

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Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven Gables

We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a h...

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Most of the people on the Cloud Ark were going to have to be women.There were other reasons for it b...

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I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in ...

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The world is full of all sorts of brilliant stuff and I haven't found out all about it yet, so I don...

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If we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.

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Neil GaimanFragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

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Neil GaimanGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She ...

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Neil GaimanSmoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

Sometimes writers write about a world that does not yet exist. We do it for a hundred reasons. (Beca...

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Neil GaimanThe View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement abou...

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The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is a...

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Neil PostmanBuilding a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future

Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.

In 5-billion years the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth v...

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Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe un...

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On Friday the 13th of April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were a...

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Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space...

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Neil deGrasse TysonThe Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitte...

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Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human bein...

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We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destructi...

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It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the pres...

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There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there a...

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And though she didn’t know it then, whenever her thoughts drifted back toward the past, she would al...

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The future says:Dear mortals;I know you are busy with your colourful lives;I have no wish to waste t...

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The ...

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My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From a...

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Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum...

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The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas w...

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The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas w...

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Nikola TeslaProblem of Increasing Human Energy

But the future is unknown, and stands before a man like autumnal fogs rising from the swamps; birds ...

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Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be...

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Thinking is a human feature. Will AI someday really think? That's like asking if submarines swim. If...

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I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to or...

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Death is not the enemy living in constant fear of it is.

A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the fu...

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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indiffere...

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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of...

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To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, esc...

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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progre...

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There was the Door to which I found no key There was the Veil through which I might not see.

Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. D...

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When I look to the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another step-pingstone to greatness.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his att...

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Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Whic...

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The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that ro...

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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Dec. 31… “Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ. Leave the broken, irrev...

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerou...

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Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself...

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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future.

Is it time uninterrupted? Only the present comprehended? Are our thoughts nothing but passing trains...

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I always sense the future, the antithesis of everything is always before my eyes. I have never seen ...

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Paul AusterThe Invention of Solitude

Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's imposs...

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That still did not invalidate their purity in his eyes, so long as they continued to live the way th...

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What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are mo...

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If I were the Devil . . . I mean, if I were the Prince of Darkness, I would of course, want to engul...

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I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called c...

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The golden age has not passed it lies in the future.

Kodachrome... it gives us those nice, bright colors,gives us the greens of summers,makes ya think al...

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Paul SimonPaul Simon: There Goes Rhymin' Simon

Kodachrome... it gives us those nice, bright colors,gives us the greens of summers,makes ya think al...

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Paul SimonPaul Simon: There Goes Rhymin' Simon

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a futu...

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In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way y...

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Ester asked why people are sad."That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their p...

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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day.We feel, ...

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And I have fitted up some chambers thereLooking towards the golden Eastern air,And level with the li...

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If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up...

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The future of architecture is culture.

Retrograde time is forward time which has passed the turning point; then as it turns back it is frei...

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Philip K. DickThe Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it i...

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Philip K. DickThe Man in the High Castle

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for w...

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There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d r...

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The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will ...

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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life