"The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done"
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"What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw."
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"The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem of when the drink is going to run out is, however, going to have to be faced one day. The planet over which they are floating is no longer the planet it was when they first started floating over it. It is in bad shape"
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"A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made? In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world's greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom."
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"The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children"
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"Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand"
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"If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any."
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"Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind."
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous."
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"The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is; the waves fold over each other; they are in love with themselves; sleeping in their own skin; and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow."
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"The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary."
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"Everywhere we turn, we see violence and hate and prejudice and anger and all of these negative emotions that are destroying humanity. And we have to wake up and take note of this and try to change our course, so that we can create a world of peace and harmony where future generations can live happily together."
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"After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends."
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"Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage."
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"All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage."
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"The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future."
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"You see, it's all clear, we were meant to be here from the beginning."
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"When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape."
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"The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it"
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