"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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"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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"It is your future that really matters."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"We can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"If silence of the days and darkness of the nights is the indicator of the doomsday, we are already in it."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"Stephen Hawking says we will not survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our planet. This existence problem can be solved by increasing the number of people with free-minds! Because just like the free birds only the free minds can reach the new horizons!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Future is the most difficult problem of our era."

Pearl Zhu, American Author

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"We live well in the houses, well enough, but we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars. Now, we dare not go 100 miles from home. We keep a little knowledge and do nothing with it, but once we used that knowledge to weave the pattern of life like a tapestry across night and chaos. We enlarged the chances of life."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"You know what the future is? It is a heavy fog which hides inside everything you can imagine!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank he lives in impersonality he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic because it is a people. The future is despotic because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction just as each man is alone in a dream."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution."

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"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

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"Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."

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"The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it."

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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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"Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence."

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"It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country."

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

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"In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism."

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"The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition."

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