Future Quotes - Page 40

• Whatever made you successful in the past won't in future.

  Lewis E. Platt

  Success, Past, Made

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• Together we can prevent genocide from happening again. Together we can make a better future for our children.

  Dith Pran

  Teamwork, Children, Rights

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• The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be.

  Simon Newcomb

  Distance, Airplane, Men

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• All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Vision, Amendments, Situation

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• A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

  Eric Hoffer

  Adversity, Past, Preoccupation

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There has no repetition of the dynasty of the fish, of the reptile, of the mammal. The dynasty of the future is to have glorified man for its inhabitant; but it is to be the dynasty-"the kingdom"-not of glorified man made in the image of God, but of God himself in the form man.

  Hugh Miller

  Science, Men, Reptiles

  Hugh Miller (1857). “The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed”, p.178

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• The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work of which the Americans of future generations can point with pride - an economic but also artistic triumph. (1914)

  Carl G. Fisher

  Hard Work, Pride, Science

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• If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Adventure, Tadpoles

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• Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.

  Edward de Bono

  Business, Thinking, Needs

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• The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the great enterprises and ideals of American society.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Eulogy: Ted Kennedy's Tribute to Senator Robert F. Kennedy". www.foxnews.com. July 23, 2009.

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• I would like to appeal to all those in whose hands the future of mankind lies, to use their power not to destroy or kill, nor to create suffering in a grasping search for selfish objectives, but to help alleviate the plight of the needy; to aim at justice and freedom for the individual.

  Poul Hartling

  Selfish, Lying, Hands

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• A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth

  Christopher Wren

  Clever, Eye, Science

  "If the Universe is Teeming with Aliens-- where is Everybody? Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life". Book by Stephen Webb, p. 150, quoting "Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Astronomy, Gresham College", 2002.

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• Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Success, Congratulations, Book

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• These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.

  Harry Belafonte

  Education, Country, Children

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• If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of similar atoms to us. They could trace their origins back to the big bang 13.7 billion years ago, and they would share with us the universe's future. However, the surest common culture would be mathematics.

  Martin Rees

  Stars, Science, Intelligent

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• Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Time, Kids, Thinking

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• We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies further on.

  Ezra Hall Gillett

  Lying, Doe, May

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• Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Way, Pleasure

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• Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.

  Emma Goldman

  Inspirational, Lying, March

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.125, 谷月社

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• Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

  Herbie Hancock

  Wisdom, Purpose, Valuable

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• The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.

  Paul Hawken

  Inspiring, Intelligent, Simplicity

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• In the past our glorious visions of the future - heaven, paradise, nirvana - were thought to happen after death. The newer thought is that we do not have to die to get there. We are not speaking here of life after death in some mythical heaven, but life more abundant in real time in history. We are speaking of the next stage of our social evolution.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Time, Real, Past

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (2015). “Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential”, p.22, New World Library

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• We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment, and jeopardize the future of our children.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Children, Environment, Locked

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• I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Believe, Heart, Giving

  Mairead Corrigan Maguire (2010). “The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin to trust our own thinking again and belive in ourselves enough to think that we can articulate our own vision of the future and then work to make sure that that vision becomes a reality.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Trust, Reality, Thinking

  "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation". Speech at Sweet Briar College, gos.sbc.edu. April 02, 1993.

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