future

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘future’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.” -Nikola Tesla

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  • “I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.” -Taylor Swift

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  • “And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past – except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.” -Clifford D. Simak

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  • “If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.” -Susan Rice

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  • “There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole’s and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what’s been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.” -Boris Kodjoe

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  • “Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth’s ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.” -Jim Fowler

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  • “I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don’t be frightened, you can’t do anything wrong, it’s your show.” -Rickie Lee Jones

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  • “Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.” -Herbie Hancock

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  • “Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund.” -Mario Monti

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  • “We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.” -Lois Capps

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  • “Having kids is something I want to see in my future – I hope.” -Rachel Bilson

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  • “We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.” -Mary-Kate Olsen

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  • “I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don’t know what the future is going to hold.” -Ray Dalio

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  • “Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.” -Ted Cruz

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  • “As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.” -Chris Ware

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  • “Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don’t see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.” -Robert Teeter

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  • “Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.” -James Broughton

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  • “The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.” -David Antin

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  • “The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama’s initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation.” -Lee Myung-bak

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  • “After all, it’s the future of business communication that we’re looking toward.” -Jim Barksdale

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  • “You never know what the future brings.” -Randy Jackson

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  • “All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.” -Hans Kung

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  • “My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.” -William Godwin

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  • “I saw rock n’ roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.” -Jon Landau

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  • “The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource – the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.” -Eric Ries

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  • “The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.” -Placido Domingo

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  • “Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you’re in big trouble if you’re borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We’ve got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.” -Simon Cowell

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  • “Baseball’s future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it’s the greatest game there is!” -Ted Williams

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  • “Mitt Romney has never been resigned to what someone else said was possible. He cut his own path. That’s why he believes in his heart that America has a future full of opportunity and hope. And that’s why when Mitt Romney looks down the road, he sees a country that’s ready for a comeback.” -Mitch…

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  • “Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that’s not the same thing as wisdom.” -Joshua Foer

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  • “I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.” -Ken Burns

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  • “I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn’t matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.” -Eric Stoltz

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  • “I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.” -Boris Becker

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  • “I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know I’m vulnerable too and each one of us is.” -Tim Gunn

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  • “Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.” -Daniel Libeskind

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  • “I suppose I’m intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I’m a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.” -Jude Law

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  • “Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children’s children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.” -Maggie Q

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  • “There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there’d be something I’d miss that was funny in the future. If there’s a chance I’m going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.” -Dave Navarro

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  • “In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.” -Alan Dundes

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  • “Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.” -Huston Smith

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  • “The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That’s my immortality. And I shouldn’t try to mortgage theirs for my benefit.” -Justin Cronin

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  • “You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn’t exist.” -Azar Nafisi

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  • “Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.” -Yuri Milner

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  • “When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a president who has demonstrated through his demeanor and through his deeds that he is uniquely qualified to heal our divisions, rebuild our nation and lead us to a brighter future together.” -Charlie Crist

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  • “I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there’s Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie – everybody in that poster has died, I’m the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it’s hard to believe they’re gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future…

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  • “This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.” -Mark Kennedy

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  • “There’s a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.” -Sean Bean

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  • “I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn’t been done yet. That’s kind of my constant obsession.” -John Cale

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  • “When I was 17, I broke up with my future wife.” -Kris Allen

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  • “The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.” -Jean Claude Van Damme

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  • “The computer is your passport, not only to the future but to knowing what’s going around you.” -Michael Nutter

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  • “I’m not making any bets on the future.” -Michelle Williams

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  • “The TUC’s new slogan ‘a future that works’ sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.” -Frances O’Grady

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  • “In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.” -Ben Bernanke

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  • “Propaganda must appeal to mankind’s better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.” -Christian Lous Lange

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  • “The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.” -Evan Esar

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  • “We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.” -King Hussein I

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  • “Head Start’s ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America’s future success.” -Joe Baca

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  • “By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country.” -Ron Lewis

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  • “The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future.” -Junior Seau

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  • “What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that…

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  • “Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.” -Gerry Adams

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  • “To a father, when a child dies, the future dies to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.” -Red Auerbach

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  • “I can’t predict the future.” -Andrew Mason

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  • “I look more to the future. That’s where my head is at.” -Flavor Flav

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  • “To get nostalgic about other people’s music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.” -Neil Peart

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  • “My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.” -Sun Myung Moon

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  • “I’m already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.” -Shailene Woodley

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  • “I’m just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won’t be any more touring.” -Glenn Danzig

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  • “We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.” -Ron Reagan

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  • “The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.” -Robertson Davies

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  • “I’m on a search for my future ex-wife.” -Richie Sambora

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  • “The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.” -Augusten Burroughs

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  • “I don’t know where I’m going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else… for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.” -Audrey Tautou

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  • “One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We’re also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.” -Thabo Mbeki

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  • “Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they’re 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.” -Ed Markey

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  • “It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.” -Gregory Bateson

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  • “I really hope that we’ll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we’re not too far lost.” -Ellen Page

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  • “My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.” -Niklaus Wirth

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  • “Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public’s imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.” -Paul Davies

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  • “Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.” -Roh Moo-hyun

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  • “After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.” -Michael Mandelbaum

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  • “Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the ’70s.” -Jet Li

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  • “People always want to pin yesterday’s news on you, as opposed to asking you what you’re going to do for the future, what you’re doing today.” -Corey Feldman

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  • “If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don’t put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don’t think your team will work.” -Tim Hardaway

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  • “In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.” -Gustav Stresemann

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  • “That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.” -Jeff Miller

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  • “We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.” -Kofi Annan

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  • “I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!” -Gail Simmons

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  • “Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before – to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.” -Jo Nesbo

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  • “Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.” -Frank Herbert

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  • “I try not to worry about the future – so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.” -Tom Wilson

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  • “The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.” -Gifford Pinchot

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  • “That’s where the future lies, in the youth of today.” -Willie Stargell

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  • “For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He’s right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.” -Brian Mulroney

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  • “The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.” -Tim Berners-Lee

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  • “Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.” -Herman Kahn

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  • “Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I’m going to do is play politics with their future.” -Lindsey Graham

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  • “No one’s played on the moon yet. No one’s played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyramids of Giza, but we’d very much like to do that in the near future.” -Brandon Boyd

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  • “People’s – most people’s job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It’s not even paper.” -Colin Quinn

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  • “I can’t predict the future.” -Paul Wolfowitz

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  • “If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.” -Alfred Russel Wallace

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  • “The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to.” -George Papandreou

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  • “As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.” -Ryan Seacrest

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  • “To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist – optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.” -Kevin Rudd

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  • “The future belongs to crowds.” -Don DeLillo

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  • “If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.” -Danielle Steel

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  • “As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.” -Terrence…

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  • “In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.” -Brad Henry

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  • “I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?” -George Byron

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  • “I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.” -Minoru Yamasaki

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  • “I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?” -Clyde Tombaugh

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  • “An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.” -Samuel Alexander

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  • “My past is my wisdom to use today… my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.” -Gene Oliver

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  • “The future is keeping you out of the present time.” -Van Morrison

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  • “I look forward to the future – and going into the studio to make new music.” -Diana Ross

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  • “This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn’t mean we can get there from here.” -Kevin Kelly

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  • “It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like ‘Back to the Future’ and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren’t doing. It’s hard to get them on their feet.” -Chris Evans

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  • “It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.” -Malcolm…

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  • “I’m not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart… they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.” -John Grisham

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  • “And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous.” -Dan Lipinski

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  • “You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.” -Warren G. Bennis

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  • “The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.” -Peace Pilgrim

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  • “By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.” -Zelda Fitzgerald

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  • “What’s interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It’s either a utopia or it’s misery. The real truth is that there’s going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.” -Albert Brooks

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  • “The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.” -Stephen Ambrose

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  • “I’m scared of the unknown future.” -Bethenny Frankel

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  • “To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.” -Charles J. Givens

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  • “So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.” -Mika Waltari

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  • “Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.” -Margaret Fuller

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  • “You know, we’d just had a birthday, he was… you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world… a very gifted man, and it’s a loss to the world, not just for us.” -Robin Gibb

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  • “I’d like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.” -Garth Brooks

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  • “As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can’t take off.” -David Mitchell

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  • “We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.” -Barbara Boxer

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  • “It is the child’s understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They’re still doing it today with modern technology.” -Michael Morpurgo

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  • “The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.” -Terry Eagleton

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  • “I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.” -Joseph Beuys

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  • “I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.” -Andrew Wiles

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  • “For every minute, the future is becoming the past.” -Thor Heyerdahl

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  • “What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers.” -Scott Walker

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  • “To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security,…

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  • “In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won’t mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep.” -Daniel H. Wilson

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  • “My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you’re not strictly bound to a linear narrative.” -Tommy Lee Jones

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  • “The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.” -Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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  • “Everything about my politics has been about the future.” -David Miliband

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  • “I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.” -Arsene Wenger

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  • “As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the…

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  • “We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.” -Maurice Strong

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  • “The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.” -George Crumb

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  • “Of course I am political. You ‘ave to be don’t you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. ‘Ow can people ignore this? We ‘ave to leave a good world for our children, n’est-ce pas?” -Emmanuelle Beart

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  • “If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future’s ahead and not behind.” -Jerry Only

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  • “By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.” -Ian Mcewan

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  • “There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There’s an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.” -Jay Weatherill

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  • “Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.” -Wynton Marsalis

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  • “The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Like I always say, one doesn’t know what can happen in the future, but if it were up to me to decide, I would stay at Barcelona for the rest of my career.” -Lionel…

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  • “Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.” -Dionne Warwick

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  • “I’m not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.” -Wilbur…

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  • “The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean, it’s no longer a question of should we address entitlements – it’s no longer a question of do we need to reduce spending in the future.” -Mark Zandi

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  • “I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man’s future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.” -Julien Benda

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  • “I couldn’t wait to look at someone who shared my genes. I thought my baby was going to provide a decoder key to my past. But then I looked at Pippa and realized, no, she’s actually the key to my future.” -Emily Procter

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  • “But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.” -Donna Shalala

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  • “Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.” -Martin Sheen

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  • “I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film’s future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.” -Donald Pleasence

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  • “You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people’s lives.” -Ian Botham

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  • “Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.” -Robert Smithson

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  • “And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won’t accept you, because we haven’t a clue – you know – of the future of a so-called ‘deaf’ musician. And I just couldn’t quite accept that.” -Evelyn Glennie

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  • “My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.” -Vladimir Horowitz

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  • “Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it’s up to us to try to change it… I feel like a preacher! But it’s really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.” -Alexander Payne

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  • “What I’m suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.” -Jeremy Rifkin

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  • “The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.” -David R. Brower

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  • “Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.” -Ethel Waters

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  • “Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.” -Jaron Lanier

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  • “The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.” -Angela Merkel

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  • “I don’t know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.” -Barbara Mandrell

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  • “In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we’d simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney.…

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  • “I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.” -Harold Bloom

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  • “I see Turkey’s future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.” -Orhan Pamuk

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  • “Kids feel so strongly about what’s going on today and what’s happening to the world, and that’s very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.” -Carl Hiaasen

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  • “Creation is all space, all time – all things past, present, and future.” -Matthew Fox

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  • “I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing – dreams of escape.” -Julie Walters

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