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  • Brett Favre on future

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    “Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn’t deal with.” -Brett Favre

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  • Charisma Carpenter on future

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    “It’s been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I’ve just been holding my breath and praying… I’m basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don’t know what the future holds.” -Charisma Carpenter

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  • Margaret Cho on future

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    “Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.” -Margaret Cho

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  • Nigella Lawson on future

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    “I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.” -Nigella Lawson

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  • Ellie Goulding on future

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    “I never remember having a plan. All I could think about was how I was going to afford to get into college or where I was going to stay because I hated being at home. I didn’t really have time to think about anything in the future. I didn’t think about a career or anything.…

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  • Jacob Bronowski on future

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    “We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.” -Jacob Bronowski

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  • John Holt on future

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    “Since we can’t know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.” -John Holt

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  • Chris Christie on future

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    “I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he’ll do it again in the future, I don’t know. But Gov. Romney never has.” -Chris Christie

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  • Thomas Hobbes on future

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    “The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.” -Thomas Hobbes

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  • Leopold Von Ranke on future

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    “You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.” -Leopold Von Ranke

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  • Jim Bishop on future

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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.” -Jim Bishop

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  • Floyd Mayweather, Jr. on future

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    “My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.” -Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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  • Heath Ledger on future

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    “I don’t have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.” -Heath Ledger

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  • Ashley Tisdale on future

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    “I’d love to do more action stuff, in the future.” -Ashley Tisdale

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  • Gary Ross on future

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    “Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the ’50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.” -Gary Ross

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  • Lord Acton on future

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    “The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making…

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  • Marya Mannes on future

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    “The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.” -Marya Mannes

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  • Eliot Spitzer on future

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    “The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.” -Eliot Spitzer

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  • Anita Brookner on future

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    “Life… is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won’t be got rid of.” -Anita Brookner

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  • Curtis LeMay on future

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    “Sometime in the future – 25, 50, 75 years hence – what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.” -Curtis LeMay

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  • Salman Rushdie on future

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    “Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.” -Salman Rushdie

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  • V. S. Naipaul on future

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    “Africa has no future.” -V. S. Naipaul

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  • Susan Sontag on future

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    “I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.” -Susan Sontag

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  • John Dryden on future

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    “Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more if future fortunes were known before!” -John Dryden

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  • James Lovelock on future

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    “You mustn’t take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.” -James Lovelock

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