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"You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything."
Paul Kantner
"You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything."
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"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."
Iris Murdoch
"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."
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"School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother."
Tre Cool
"School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother."
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"We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options."
David Suzuki
"We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options."
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"We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today."
Herb Kohl
"We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today."
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"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell."
Zora Neale Hurston
"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell."
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"Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it."
Lawrence Taylor
"Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it."
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"If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future."
Danielle Steel
"If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future."
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"The future is today."
William Osler
"The future is today."
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"Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past."
Bob Dylan
"Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past."
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"Eventually there are going to be cities in space."
Alan Bean
"Eventually there are going to be cities in space."
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"The truly important people in our lives are always in our future."
Ron Baratono
"The truly important people in our lives are always in our future."
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"That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you."
Branford Marsalis
"That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you."
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"The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine."
Mike Murdock
"The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine."
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"The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%."
Jack Welch
"The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%."
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"The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity."
Thomas Mann
"The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity."
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"In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer."
Martin van Creveld
"In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer."
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"You go out there and ask them what their future is today. If we don't build that today, there's nothing."
Richard M. Daley
"You go out there and ask them what their future is today. If we don't build that today, there's nothing."
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"Tomorrow is the mysterious unknown guest."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Tomorrow is the mysterious unknown guest."
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"It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this."I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself."Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea.""The board-schools.""Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future."
Arthur Conan Doyle
"It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this."I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself."Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea.""The board-schools.""Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future."
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"The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face."
Jim Bishop
"The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face."
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"Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself."
Stephen King
"Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself."
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"I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from."
Jenna Elfman
"I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from."
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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
Alan Kay
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
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"The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space."
Wilson Greatbatch
"The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space."
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"They gave each other a smile with a future in it."
Ring Lardner
"They gave each other a smile with a future in it."
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"For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those."
Karl Lehmann
"For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those."
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"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."
Marcus Aurelius
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."
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"The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates."
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"I know of no way of judging the future but by the past."
Patrick Henry
"I know of no way of judging the future but by the past."
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"For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we're going to be facing into the future."
Geraldine Ferraro
"For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we're going to be facing into the future."
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"I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer."
Peter Ustinov
"I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer."
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"I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news."
Matt Drudge
"I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news."
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"I know no way of judging the future but by the past."
Patrick Henry
"I know no way of judging the future but by the past."
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"I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version."
Don DeLillo
"I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version."
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"Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s."
Jet Li
"Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s."
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"I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds."
Robbie Coltrane
"I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds."
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"The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present."
John Naisbitt
"The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present."
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"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess."
James Thurber
"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess."
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"There's been a big void out there, in terms of where I've been and what I am currently working on, I'd like to fill that void now and share my exciting plans for the future."
Priscilla Presley
"There's been a big void out there, in terms of where I've been and what I am currently working on, I'd like to fill that void now and share my exciting plans for the future."
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"The future begins today."
Wayne Gerard Trotman
"The future begins today."
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"The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now."
James A. Baldwin
"The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now."
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"The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish."
David Trimble
"The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish."
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"For us to change history, we first need to change the future."
Anthony Liccione
"For us to change history, we first need to change the future."
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"The future is a fabulous place to bury your success."
Chris Murray
"The future is a fabulous place to bury your success."
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"You have to be professional and think about the future."
Jamie Redknapp
"You have to be professional and think about the future."
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"Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers."
Ron Paul
"Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers."
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"The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow."
Shannon L. Alder
"The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow."
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"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."
Joseph Joubert
"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."
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"I would like to direct in the future, but I am in no hurry with that."
Jonathan Brandis
"I would like to direct in the future, but I am in no hurry with that."
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