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• The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Dream, Past

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.568, Wordsworth Editions

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• A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!

  Anton Chekhov

  Beautiful, Stars, Character

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, October 18, 1888.

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• The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Happiness, Men

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• The Earth Charter is important as an expression of the commitment of people throughout the Earth to evoke their own deepest moral, spiritual and ethical principles in the task of ensuring a sustainable future for those who inhabit the Earth now and those who will follow us on the Earth.

  Maurice Strong

  God, Spiritual, Commitment

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• Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy without classes. To do so will require the efforts of us all-teachers, administrators, taxpayers and statesmen. Education is a social process, perhaps the most important process in determining the future of our country; it should command a far larger portion of our national income than it does today.

  James Bryant Conant

  Education, Country, Teacher

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• Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don't want. Vision uses imagination to picture something you DO want. Either way, you tend to get what you focus on. Imagine a future where you shine, others thrive, and the light of hope shines brighter in the world. If you can see it, you can be it.

  Ian Lawton

  Hope, Light, Imagination

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• It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient

  Barack Obama

  Vision, Important, Scientist

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• I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in knowledge which this one had. I have confidence in the equipment, the planning, the training. I suspect that on a risk-gain ratio, this project would compare very, very favorably with those to which I've been accustomed on the past 20 years.

  Neil Armstrong

  Past, Years, Risk

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• Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Funny, Time

  "NIELS BOHR DOODLE GOOGLE: Great quotes from a man at the nucleus of atomic understanding" by Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. October 7, 2012.

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• There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Past

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• Scientists themselves readily admit that they do not fully understand the consequences of our many-faceted assault upon the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and life in all its biological diversity. But things could also turn out to be worse than the current scientific best guess. In military affairs, policy has long been based on the dictum that we should be prepared for the worst case. Why should it be so different when the security is that of the planet and our long-term future?

  Prince Charles

  Military, Science, Land

  "Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning". Book by Martin Rees (p. 112-113), March 17, 2009.

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• Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.

  Tony Evans

  Inspirational, Christian, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by Tony Evans from Apr 10, 2012

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• We are all affected by five things. But the most important thing that affects us is our dreams--our ability to see the future. But here's why we don't reach into the future. We're trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present. So make sure that the greatest pull on you is the pull of the future.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Dream, Regret

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Nov 30, 2012

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• 'Sustainable Development' is an oxymoron. 'Development' in all it's senses entails expansion and wanting more. Continual expansion and wanting more are unsustainable. Globally we are approaching the point when the only sustainable way forward is to want less. Indeed, the choice element may be removed from us and we will just have to have less. In the meantime we still have some choices about how to influence our future

  Don Johnston

  Way Forward, Choices, Vision

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• Let's have a merry journey, and shout about how light is good and dark is not. What we should do is not future ourselves so much. We should now ourselves. "Now thyself" is more important than "know thyself." Reason is what tells us to ignore the present and live in the future. So all we do is make plans. We think that somewhere there are going to be green pastures. It's crazy. Heaven is nothing but a grand, monumental instance of future. Listen, now is good. Now is wonderful.

  Mel Brooks

  Crazy, Dark, Journey

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• Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

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• Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

  Dean Acheson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

  Paul Valery

  Time, Trouble, Used

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

  Malcolm X

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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• Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated individuals, responsible to nobody. They do not share the nation’s traditions, they are indifferent to its past and have no ambition for its future. They seek only their own personal advantage in the present. Their dream is the great International, in which the differences of peoples and languages, races and cultures will be obliterated.

  Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

  Dream, Party, Ambition

  Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck (2012). “Germany's Third Empire”, p.82, Arktos

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• Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Past

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• Future leaders will be less concerned with saying what they will deliver and more concerned with delivering what they have said they would.

  Dave Ulrich

  Leadership, Leaders Of Tomorrow, Said

  Twitter post from Apr 19, 2017

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.

  Jimmy Iovine

  Life, Graduation, Smart

  Jimmy Iovine's Commencement Address at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, news.usc.edu. May 17, 2013.

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• We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.

  Andrew McCutchen

  Motivational, Baseball, Determination

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