For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.
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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
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History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
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In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get The Future!
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Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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Marriage. It's like a cultural handrail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.
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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
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Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
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Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
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If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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Neo I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid.. Afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.
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.. Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
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Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
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Only lie about the future.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today... We will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future.
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To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.
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Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today.
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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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