"I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change."
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"Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . ."
"He who controls the past controls the future."
"If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it yourself, and you can multiply your future income by five."
"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."
"But my future is a secret. / It is as shy as a mole."
"The greatest adventure is what lies ahead"
"We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible."
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place."
"It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future"
"Money won't change you, but time will take you out."
"Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists."
"Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people"
"The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now."
"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."
"Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space."
"The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket to the Moon carried a red flag. The first photograph of the far side of the Moon was made with a Soviet camera. If a man orbits the earth this year his name will be Ivan."
"The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present"
"Let's start a new tomorrow, today."
"I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now."