"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."

Future, Past

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"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."

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"In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Future, Will

"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."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Future, Optimism, Responsibility, Change

"The future and eternity are two entirely different things."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Future, Eternity

"You have to change your thinking if you desire to have a future different from your present."

Germany Kent, Roman Soldier

Future, Change, Thought, Mindset

"Don't waste our children's future on man's past."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Future, Children, Hope, Responsibility

"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Future, Past

"The future is no more uncertain than the present."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Only God knows the future and that we are to look to Him-not to the stars or the tea leaves or the lines on the palms of our hands-for our confidence in the future."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Future, Trust, Divine, Prediction

"Whenever I look at the masses, I feel one day the earth will certainly explode."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Future, Earth, Fear

"In the future, man will be able to create an artificial Sun which is very similar to the Sun in the sky that was once upon a time worshipped as a god!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it."

Change

"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."

Will

"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh."

Death

"Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility."

Character

"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live."

Man

"Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature."

Purpose

"Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature."

Nature

"Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back."

Death

"If the gods have determined about me and about the things which must happen to me, they have determined well, for it is not easy even to imagine a deity without forethought; and as to doing me harm, why should they have any desire towards that? For what advantage would result to them from this or to the whole, which is the special object of their providence? But if they have not determined about me individually, they have certainly determined about the whole at least, and the things which happen by way of sequence in this general arrangement I ought to accept with pleasure and to be content with them."

Fate

"Time is like a river of fleeting events and its current is strong as soon as something comes into sight it is swept past us and something else takes its place and that too will be swept away."

Time