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• Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art historians stand by ready with cameras and notebooks to make sure every novel detail is safe for the record. The tradition of the new has reduced all other traditions to triviality.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Notebook, Art, League

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• I've been through a lot and I realise the future can't be controlled. I'm not worried. You can always learn to overcome difficulties.

  Niki Lauda

  Overcoming, Worried, Difficulty

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• To line only for some unknown future is superficial.

  Abdul Kalam

  Lines, Superficial, Unknown Future

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• Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence on yourself. When one does a good thing, it's well to keep it to show how foolish we are at other times.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Mean, Promise, Doe

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing to re-create it.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Past, Ashes, Willing

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• I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a new expression in Art. It was an unfolding of the heart itself through the effect of environment, of people, of place, and time.

  Lawren Harris

  Lonely, Art, Race

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• It seems to rise again when the crisis times come, and this is a time of most severe crisis, as we all know, not just for the history of the United States and the survival indeed of our democracy, but for the future peace of the world. And never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment.

  Walter Cronkite

  God, Time, Commitment

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• A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Children, Science

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• A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Husband, Men, Wife

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• Control of space means control of the world.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Mean, Space, World

  Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “A Time for Action”

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• The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the air age we were powerful because we had airplaines. Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Powerful, Space, Air

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• Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Stars, War, Men

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.668, Best Books on

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• The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Written

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1968). “Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects”

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• There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they make me impatient because I am convinced that beauty and order in our environment are not frills. I am convinced that they are urgent necessities because they will determine whether our grandchildren can live in a decent land or whether they will be surrounded by glittering junkheaps.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Grandchildren, Order, Land

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.459, Best Books on

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• We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Water, Population, Needs

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.360, Best Books on

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• Let's go invent tomorrow...

  Steve Jobs

  Tomorrow

  "Bill Gates and Steve Jobs at D5". Interview with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, allthingsd.com. May 30, 2007.

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• Armies gather in the East for the war that's soon to come. Death will march with the mark of the beast, so seek the light and walk with the Son.

  Randy Travis

  War, Son, Army

  Song: Jerusalem's Cry, Album: Rise and Shine

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  As we look into the future, it's as far as we can see. So let's make each tomorrow be the best that it can be.

  George Strait

  Looks, Tomorrow, Being The Best

  Song: I Cross My Heart, Album: Pure Country, 1992

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• There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.

  Nhat Hanh

  Fear, Anger, Past

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “The Path of Emancipation: Talks from a 21-day Mindfulness Retreat”, p.8, Parallax Press

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• No thought about the past or future can pull you away from your present peace and joy. The universe exists in this present moment. No desire can pull you away from this present peace, not even the desire to become a Buddha or the desire to save all beings. Know that to become a Buddha and to save all beings can only be realized on the foundation of the pure peace of the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Past, Joy

  Various, Ledi Sayadaw, Bhikkhu Khantipalo, Nyanaponika Thera, Padmasiri de Silva (2012). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247”, p.109, Buddhist Publication Society

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• The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Care, Way, Moments

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Understanding Our Mind”, p.230, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you are truly present and know how to take care of the present moment as best you can, you are doing your best for the future already.

  Nhat Hanh

  Care, Moments, Doing Your Best

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Promise, Would Be, Another Life

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• The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Past, Ideas, Heroism

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.655, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Fall, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.17, Penguin

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