"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible."

Future, Promises

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"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible."

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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

Future, Present

"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

Future, Inspirational, Truth, Power

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"Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless."

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"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."

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"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide."

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"Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise."

Content

"War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford."

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"Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one."

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"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think."

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"By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality."

Nature

"The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error."

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"Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx."

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