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• It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Business, Yankees

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  America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

  Jane Addams

  Education, Children, Home

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• This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ironic, Age, Attention

  "The Peter Plan : A Proposal for Survival". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1976.

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• If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Faith, Hope, Would Be

  "Cousteau country: scuba diving in Papua New Guinea" by Kevin Rushby, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2017.

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• Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Entrepreneur, Degenerates

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• The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

  Erich Fromm

  Anger, Past, Men

  The Sane Society (1955) ch. 9

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• Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

  Ian Hacking

  Cutting, Done, Fowl

  The Emergence of Probability Am Absent Family of Ideas (p. 3)

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• I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strength, Country, Military

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.817, Best Books on

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• Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

  John L. Lewis

  Thoughtful, America, Organization

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• We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Home, Blow, Worry

  "Fictional character: Dr. Meredith Grey". TV Series "Grey's Anatomy" ("Here's to Future Days", 2009), (2005 - ).

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• People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.

  F. Matthias Alexander

  Inspirational, Life, People

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• Change happens at the level of the individual

  Scilla Elworthy

  Change, Motivation, Levels

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• The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

  Leonard Sweet

  Wisdom, Positive Thinking, Visualization

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• I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Education, Children, Thinking

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• I work for perfection, for perfection's sake. I don't care what the external reasons are. And it's much more like a ballerina on opening night. You've done what you've got to do. When you go out, the purpose is to turn a perfect turn. You are not thinking about the future of the company, you are not thinking about your future, you're not thinking about the critics, it is you and the perfect turn.

  Story Musgrave

  Science, Thinking About You, Night

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.

  Jack Johnson

  Hands, Machines, Premonition

  Song: The Horizon Has Been Defeated, Album: On And On

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• The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Past, Building Up

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1175, Delphi Classics

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• I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Lost Love, Past

  "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill".

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• The softer your heart is the less that your past is forming your present and your future. When there is openness and softness of heart, what forms the present and the future is not your past but the reality of your own being.

  John de Ruiter

  Inspirational, Heart, Past

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• I believe that children are our future. Unless we stop them now.

  Matt Groening

  Children, Believe, Parenting

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• In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

  Vinod Khosla

  Science, Years, Data

  "Vinod Khosla: In The Next 10 Years, Data Science Will Do More For Medicine Than All Biological Sciences Combined". techcrunch.com. September 11, 2013.

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• I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.”

  Afeni Shakur

  Love, Inspirational, Children

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• The karate that has been introduced to Tokyo is actually just a part of the whole. The fact that those who have learnt karate there feel it only consists of kicks & punches, and that throws & locks are only to be found in judo or jujutsu, can only be put down to a lack of understanding ... Those who are thinking of the future of karate should have an open mind and strive to study the complete art

  Kenwa Mabuni

  Inspirational, Art, Learning

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• Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

  Moshe Safdie

  Past, Looking Forward, Architecture

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• Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.

  Irina Bokova

  Education, Children, Reading

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