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Future Quotes


"I know of no way of judging the future but by the past."


"And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through."


"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind."


"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."


"There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past."


"You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future."


"I know no way of judging the future but by the past."


"The German future lies in the hands of our Fuehrer."


"I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds."


"A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future."


"I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate."


"I would like to direct in the future, but I am in no hurry with that."


"You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living."


"It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds."


"The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors."


"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."


"ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders."


"The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore."


"In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures."


"During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future."


"That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here."


"But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations."


"Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down."


"Well, clearly, for me in the immediate future, it is grappling, like so many other governors are grappling, with the economic woes of these states. We were all hoping to see some federal relief."


"If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind."


"This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive."


"I believe you can remember the future as much as the past."


"We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future."


"What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic."


"Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future... They have got to step up."
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