"America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future."

Future, America, Appetite, Present

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"America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future."

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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

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"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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"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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"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

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"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Your future depends of the choices you make today. The future for this reason can be predicted by your day to day living."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"We are the future, we are your children.We will make this world a peaceful garden."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."

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"For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one."

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"The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to."

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"After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood."

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"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found."

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"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class."

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"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few."

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"I feel we are all islands - in a common sea."

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"Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars."

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