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Future Quotes
"Posthuman. It was a word from advertising copy, breathless and empty, and all he'd ever thought it really meant was that the people using it had a limited imagination about what exactly humans were capable of."
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"Every act of kindness is another step up Heaven's stairway."
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"Seeds you plant today determine the harvest you reap tomorrow."
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"In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed."
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"They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers."
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"There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush."
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"The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become."
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"I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer."
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"We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction "If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.""
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"I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side."
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"I can't think of any more important issue. If we get this right, we'll not only preserve our landscape for future generations we'll be able to generate I think more investment and more job opportunities in the inland and we sure as hell need those jobs."
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"The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars."
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"We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible."
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"No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction."
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"Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying."
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"What a powerful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that's never been experienced. And how tragic not to consider it. It galls us, we with such a limited future, to see someone brush it aside as meaningless, when it has an endless capacity for meaning, and an endless number of meanings that can be found within it."
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"Sometimes writers write about a world that does not yet exist. We do it for a hundred reasons. (Because it's good to look forward, not back. Because we need to illuminate a path we hope or we fear humanity will take. Because the world of the future seems more enticing or more interesting than the world of today. Because we need to warn you. To encourage. To examine. To imagine.) The reasons for writing about the day after tomorrow, and all the tomorrows that follow it, are as many and as varied as the people writing."
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"The future is the worst thing about the present."
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"To my shame, I had never thought to ask anything of the future, and yet woke each and every day embittered because it was never what I needed it to be."
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"I do not think it irresponsible to portray even the direst futures if we are to avoid them we must understand that they are possible. But where are the alternatives Where are the dreams that motivate and inspire We long for realistic maps of a world we can be proud to give to our children. Where are the cartographers of human purpose Where are the visions of hopeful futures of technology as a tool for human betterment and not a gun on hair trigger pointed at our heads."
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"The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do."
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"As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined."
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"We live well in the houses, well enough, but we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars. Now, we dare not go 100 miles from home. We keep a little knowledge and do nothing with it, but once we used that knowledge to weave the pattern of life like a tapestry across night and chaos. We enlarged the chances of life."
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"You can't prepare for the details of every single possible thing that might come your way in the future, because the future is uncertain."
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"When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest."
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"The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you."
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"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."
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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."
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"The future can never lie about the past. In the end, you will see the beginning."
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"If you want to know if someone was meant to be in your future, then remove all the worldly things about them from your mind. Don't think about their looks, the intimate moments or their personality. Now, think about how they made you feel, how they improved your life and what virtues they possess that push you to want to become better. Did they bring you closer to God? Did they bring you to your life mission? Did they ever lie to you, betray you or made it impossible for you to feel comfortable speaking your mind? When you remove all the shine from a diamond, it becomes a glass rock. What value is it then? See beneath the surface and you will know who your future is with."
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"Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets."
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"Simeon had to agree that his future plans, although quite grand, were like pictures painted in fog. Nothing he could put his finger on. No dream ever remained unchanged long enough to take on any weight or substance, just a notion of something better waiting for him somewhere in the future."
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