"My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides."
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"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."
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"Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet."
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"Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead."
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"To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind."
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"In this bright future you can't forget your past."
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"We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely"
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"Within the child lies the fate of the future."
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"If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you."
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"The future is no more uncertain than the present."
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"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so."
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"We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewable energy)"
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"There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation"
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"Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence."
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"When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!"
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"I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."
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"A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs."
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"Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future."
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"I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past."
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"You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born."
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