Future Quotes - Page 30

• In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future based on renewable resources.

  Kenneth S. Deffeyes

  Science, Agriculture, Fuel

  Kenneth S. Deffeyes (2008). “The Future of Fossil Fuels: From "Hubbert's Peak"”, p.160, Princeton University Press

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• To embody a new paradigm of civilization - to learn to think like a planet in order to heal and nurture a planet - is not a typical hero's task. It is more the task of a gardener. The planet does not offer us challenges to be overcome to prove our worth or individuality; it presents us with a community to understand, a community with disparate needs and identities that are nonetheless intertwined in mutual dependencies.

  David Spangler

  Hero, Thinking, Order

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• If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

  Byron Katie

  Reality, Want, Enlightened

  Interview with Sunny Massad, realization.org. October 23, 2001.

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• They make a secret pact with themelves never to think about the future.

  Paulo Coelho

  Thinking, Secret, Promise

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• We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mind, News, Plans

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.157, Random House

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• Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are.

  John Denver

  Music, Stars, Wind

  Song: The Eagle and the Hawk, Album: Aerie, 1972

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• Commit yourself to do whatever it is you can contribute in order to create a healthy and sustainable future - the world needs you desperately. Find that in yourself and make a commitment - that is what will change the world.

  John Denver

  Commitment, Order, Healthy

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• You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish independence and the Republic, you will find the power you need in the noble blood in your veins.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Daughter, Son, Blood

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• I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Sea, Land

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.146, Penguin

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• God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday; the Golden Age lies down the road, not up it.

  Ken Wilber

  Lying, Past, Garden

  Ken Wilber (2001). “The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.

  Plutarch

  Kings, Sweat, Important

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• For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert."

  Robert Greene

  Motto

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2014

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• The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

  Publilius Syrus

  Wise, Men, Ifs

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• It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.

  Philip James Bailey

  Thinking, Fit

  Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.141

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• Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Mirrors, Faces, Left Behind

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• The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Surprise, Bounds

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• The never-ending flight Of future days.

  John Milton

  Flight, Never Ending, Paradise Lost Book 2

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.47

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• We can't take a slipshod and easygoing attitude toward education in this country. And by "we" I don't mean "somebody else," but I mean me and I mean you. It is the future of our country-yours and mine-which is at stake.

  Henry Ford II

  Country, Attitude, Mean

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• You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Firsts, First Lady, Feels

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• I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes.

  Daniel Burrus

  Eye, Thinking, Yesterday

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• A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made? In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world's greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.

  Bernard Baruch

  Country, Ark, Records

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• Don't rely on our knowledge of what's best for your future. We do know, but it can't be best until you know it.

  Ayn Rand

  Knowledge, Rely, Knows

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.613, Hamilton Books

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• PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Practice, Selling

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.189, University of Georgia Press

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• Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.

  Bob Brown

  Real, Gun, Contentment

  Bob Brown (2012). “Memo For A Saner World”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.

  Helen Caldicott

  Optimistic, Thinking, Hands

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