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

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

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

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Future, Earth, Fear

"We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier to envision than the impending changes in everyday roles, thoughts, practices that not even the wildest science fiction anticipated. Perhaps we should not have adjusted to it so easily. It would be better if we were astonished every day."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

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"The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"The future is made of the same stuff as the present."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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"Desire and hope will push us on toward the future."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"As far as the future for the Showtime episodes that have already aired, we are sold into syndication so we'll be appearing primarily on the Fox syndicated networks and then eventually the SCI FI Channel. So, we'll be around for a while."

Richard Dean Anderson, American Actor

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"Valentine went back to class without answering. That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no danger, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Future, Population, Expansion, Humanity

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"Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs."

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"Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again."

Fashion

"You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog."

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"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you."

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"If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window."

God

"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

Want

"We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid."

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"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

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