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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it throug...

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It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we inv...

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You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the sur...

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This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was c...

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At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen...

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With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past ste...

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Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes....

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Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of cour...

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Dreams are things from the past. They aren't from the future. That wasn't you imprisoned there. You ...

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Next time!" In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word f...

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The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world ...

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If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and prese...

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Time goes, you say? Ah no!Alas, Time stays, we go;Or else, were this not so, What need to chain the ...

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he ...

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Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future,...

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You were reserved for my future

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Trust no Future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Tomorrow is the mysterious unknown guest.

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears...

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Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and wit...

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Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this miser...

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The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become c...

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I would be delighted if the United States could have a positive relationship with Russia, and I woul...

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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must...

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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the ...

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Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most s...

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Doing his utmost, deploying all his energy, a young man setting out from zero can wind up after ten ...

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Honoré de BalzacThe Human Comedy: Selected Stories

Cease to inquire what the future has in store and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should li...

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Howard ZinnYou Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to pro...

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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve...

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Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, a...

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Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will p...

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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden o...

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Frustration of my plans to lighten the disaster will convince people that the future holds no promis...

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It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity ...

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I don't really know what the future of science is. Maybe we have come to the end of science; maybe s...

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Each city receives its form from the desert it opposes.

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find...

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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...

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The 90’s map the decades to come – full of invisible technologies that will ‘sub-contract’ many of t...

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We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us

The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.

the run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying the...

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In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into...

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All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in the...

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Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. N...

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We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what al...

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He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be ...

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Sam was the only member of the party who had not been over the river before. He had a strange feelin...

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Wizards are always troubled about the future.

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human...

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The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two abso...

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose ...

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American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're...

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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is...

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...[Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small cle...

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It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics...

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The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.

Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early...

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I do have hope. Nature is enormously resilient, humans are vastly intelligent, the energy and enthus...

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And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ...

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In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Divisi...

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And we kissed again. It was a warm, indescribably lovely feeling. But it was more than just physical...

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There are two schools of thought about the resilience of time. The first is that time is highly vola...

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Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own.

Before, I suspected I might not amount to anything, and now I now I won't, so at least it takes away...

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Jasper FfordeThe Woman Who Died a Lot

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.

I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the pre...

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The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without pa...

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There will be a future. We believe in our unreality too strongly to give it up.

Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?' Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future harde...

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Jeanette WintersonWeight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder ...

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Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare ...

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You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but yo...

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Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and...

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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

She had generated alternative versions of herself. She had insisted at brutal cost on these conversi...

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Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking l...

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Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, an...

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The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 m...

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We cannot ignore our gift of the future.

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Jimmy CarterJust Peace: A Message of Hope

We cannot know the mystery of the future.

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Jimmy CarterJust Peace: A Message of Hope

I bought new strings of colored lights. This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take t...

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In the space between yes and no, there is a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk ...

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