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"If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death."
"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
"The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable."
"I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures."
"I like men who have a future and women who have a past."
"No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve"
"The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us."
"The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all."
"The future is not a gift-it is an achievement."
"...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution."
"As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space."
"Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it."
"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now."
"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."
"We can't take a slipshod and easygoing attitude toward education in this country. And by "we" I don't mean "somebody else," but I mean me and I mean you. It is the future of our country-yours and mine-which is at stake."
"I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search."
"My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty."
"The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future."
"What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future."
"To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all."
