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Future Quotes
"For, having begun to build their Tower of Babel without us, they will end in anthropophagy. And it is then that the beast will come crawling to us and lick our feet and spatter them with tears of blood from its eyes. And we shall sit upon the beast and raise the cup, and on it will be written: "Mystery!"
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"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
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"I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it."
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"Desire and hope will push us on toward the future."
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"The uncertainty of the future is a great blessing for us humans! Let the road ahead of us be completely unknown for us so that we can have the marvellous joy of discovering it!"
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"Change lives on the horizon."
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"We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely."
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"Unless humanity gives top priority to the space science, there will be no future for the humanity!"
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"Each planet has a story to tell.With Mars it was nuclear aniallation.With Venus it was industrial madness.With Earth? I guess that greed will be the answer."
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"You can only see your current horizon. Every time you move nearer to your desired destination, new horizons will become clear. New, previously hidden, opportunities will come into view."
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"And everything soon must change. Men would set their watches by other suns than this. Or time would vanish. We would need no personal names of the old sort in the sidereal future, nothing being fixed. We would be designated by other nouns. Days and nights would belong to the museums. The earth a memorial park, a merry-go-round cemetery. The seas powdering our bones like quartz, making sand, grinding our peace for us by the aeon. Well, that would be good - a melancholy good."
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"Everyone is wrong about the future."
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"You know what the future is? It is a heavy fog which hides inside everything you can imagine!"
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"The problem of the survival of humanity is not a matter of ensuring the birth of future generations but of limiting it. The immediate danger to humanity is that of total annihilation within a generation or two, not the failure of mankind to breed. A woman seeking alternative modes of life is no longer morally bound to pay her debt to nature."
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"Very few men properly speaking live at present but are providing to live another time."
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"You cannot plan the future by the past."
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"Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen."
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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."
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"The accountant lingers at his children's doorway a moment more, listening to the easy rhythm of their breathing, and something cold moves through him, like the passage of a ghost - but he know that's not it. It's more like the portent of a future. A future that must never come to pass......and for the first time, he gives rise to a thought that is silently echoed in millions of homes that night. My God... what have we done?"
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"Some people stride toward a better future. Others have chauffeurs."
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"If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead."
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"Doing things the right way now is the cost of your future."
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"Changes occur and expectations change. Reality brings new possibilities, while destroying some too. It's true: the future is uncertain."
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"The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport."
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"There are so many futures still to dawn!"
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"In the future, man will be able to create an artificial Sun which is very similar to the Sun in the sky that was once upon a time worshipped as a god!"
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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."
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