"When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes."
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"Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature."
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"Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities, science will not make that choice for us. Only the moral power of a world acting as a community can"
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"Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future."
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"We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror."
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"The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice."
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"Tomorrow is our permanent address."
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"How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed."
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"You and I are standing this very second at the meeting place of two eternities: the vast past that has endured forever, and the future that is plunging on to the last syllable of recorded time. We can't possible live in either of those eternities - no, not even for a split second. But, by trying to do so, we can wreck both our bodies and our minds. So let's be content to live the only time we can possible live: from now until bedtime."
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"We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren."
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"The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering to farming - and the Industrial Revolution"
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"We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience."
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"It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is."
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"Out of the chaos, the future emerges in harmony and beauty."
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"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse."
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"The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it."
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"Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people."
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"The world will be saved by one or two people."
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"The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon."
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"If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal."
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