"I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."
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"The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens."
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"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living."
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"The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!"
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"The future is purchased by the present."
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"Regardless of your past, your tomorrow is a clean slate."
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"The past is always tense, the future perfect."
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"Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now."
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"In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes."
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"People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better."
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"In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line."
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"Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much."
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"Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be"
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"Sustainability is here to stay or we may not be"
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"Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake."
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"We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity."
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"Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future."
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"What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in"
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"Never save the best for later. You don't know what tomorrow holds."
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"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots."
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