"We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future."

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"We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future."

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"Study the past, if you would divine the future."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Future, Choice, Control, Now

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

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"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

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

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"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

"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."

Euripides, Greek Poet

Future, Learning, Past, Youth

"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

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"Seeds you plant today determine the harvest you reap tomorrow."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time."

Time

"All experience is subjective."

Experience

"Logic is a poor model of cause and effect."

Cause

"But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?"

Nature

"It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future."

History

"Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family."

Family

"Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains."

Education

"Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived."

Quantity

"To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time."

Time

"In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA."

People