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"We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts."
"Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands."
"We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude. [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]"
"Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past."
"Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives"
"And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children."
"The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them."
"Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!"
"Rap's the occupation, but one day watch I'll be Pimp of the Nation."
"The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America."
"the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future"
"The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There has no repetition of the dynasty of the fish, of the reptile, of the mammal. The dynasty of the future is to have glorified man for its inhabitant; but it is to be the dynasty-"the kingdom"-not of glorified man made in the image of God, but of God himself in the form man."
"Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one."
"Look before, or you'll find yourself behind."
"Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future."
"It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur."
"Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future"
"Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man."
"Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen."
"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."
