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"...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?"
"It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification."
"They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present."
"Simple molecules combine to make powerful chemicals. Simple cells combine to make powerful life-forms. Simple electronics combine to make powerful computers. Logically, all things are created by a combination of simpler, less capable components. Therefore, a supreme being must be in our future, not our origin. What if "God" is the consciousness that will be created when enough of us are connected by the Internet?!!"
"Tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new. Built on spirit intent of heart, and ideals based on truth."
"What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him."
"Surely the mitochondrion that first entered another cell was not thinking about the future benefits of cooperation and integration; it was merely trying to make its own living in a tough Darwinian world"
"It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening."
"I fear the future I wish for my children is at risk, so I'm taking action. Please join me."
"It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun."
"When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our feet, and live Without a fear of evil yet to come."
"We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us."
"There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty."
"Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled."
"You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future."
"The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment."
"And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?"
"We do not have a freehold on the earth, only a full repairing lease"
"I have not the most definite designs on the future."
"It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing."
