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You have within you,right now,everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

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Brian TracyCreate Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success

People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions abo...

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Brian TracyEat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them...

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«“I meant, tell me all about this steampunk thing!” Gavin broke in. “How does that concept work out ...

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«Eliza opened her furry black satchel. She pulled out a portable CD player. “Gav, look here. Once, I...

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We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience thei...

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For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.

Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing someb...

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A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstra...

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My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of look...

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What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of some of the Mas...

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C. P. SnowScience and Government

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, ...

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The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour whatever he does...

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We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favored heroes attain-not as so...

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You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.

I who know many present things by my art," replied the Hermit with a smile, "have yet little knowled...

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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

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C. S. LewisThe Screwtape Letters

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--f...

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Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

the future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuab...

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Carl SaganDragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

The price we pay for the anticipation of our future is anxiety about it.

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Carl SaganDragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

As a consequence of the enormous social and technological changes of the last few centuries, the wor...

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Carl SaganDragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

I do not think it irresponsible to portray even the direst futures if we are to avoid them we must u...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they ...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but ...

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future could be read much more clearly in the streets, factories, and barracks than in the morning p...

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Shadow of the Wind

Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long tim...

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Normal....What the majority of people look, act, and talk and like.So what if the majority became wh...

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We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment d...

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What hasty preperations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we’r...

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Chang-rae LeeOn Such a Full Sea

For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most...

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Life wore a man out, wore a man thin.Tomorrow would be a better day.

In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on ...

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Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond kno...

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Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him ...

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No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not o...

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I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleas...

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A phase of my life was closing to-night, anew one opening to-morrow: impossible to slumber in the in...

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The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we ...

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My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of ...

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But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year ...

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The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come...

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There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for ...

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A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

...but the future is a teenage crackhead who makes shit up as he goes along.

There is not, in a material sense, any benefit to being right about a future you will not experience...

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Chuck KlostermanBut What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

... the future is a teenage crackhead who makes shit up as he goes along.

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Chuck KlostermanBut What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that...

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The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span we need to i...

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When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

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Chuck PalahniukInvisible Monsters

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

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Chuck PalahniukInvisible Monsters

The future is just wasted on some people.

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Chuck PalahniukInvisible Monsters

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into ge...

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You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't ...

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Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the f...

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A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

Study the past if you would define the future.

Think of tomorrow, the past can't be mended.

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that en...

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Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou...

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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting rea...

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In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must acce...

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It's as if the railroad were looming on the horizon, and the most visionary thing the futurists of t...

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Cory DoctorowOverclocked: Stories of the Future Present

Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the futur...

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Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer termin...

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Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift...

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Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA ...

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I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environ...

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There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone a...

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I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it c...

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You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the p...

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Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fa...

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D. T. SuzukiThe Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you t...

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Rebuild your world, rebuild your race, rebuild your empire. Rebuild it all. But make sure you rebuil...

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Dan AbnettDoctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By

Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic researc...

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I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is...

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The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

Director of Ensuring the Future

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the prese...

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Young people: They care. They know that this is the world that they're going to grow up in, that the...

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Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, a...

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There's always room for Jell-O

After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkp...

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I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as Brit...

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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

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David EaglemanSum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

If you were a kid in 1955, you would pick up a copy of 'Popular Science' and it would say, 'This is ...

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What is our life: (Pause.) it’s looking forward or it’s looking back. And that’s our life. That’s it...

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The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from th...

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