Our Future Quotes - Page 5

• Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics.

  Warren Buffett

  Believe, Fall, Past

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, 1998.

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• It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the security, not in the predator, but in the security of our Mother, for our future generations. In that we can insure our security as the Mothers of our Nations.

  Winona LaDuke

  Daughter, Mother, Women

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• If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only intellegent beings in the galaxy we should make sure we survive and continue. . . . Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth but to spread out into space. We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Moon, Years, Two

  "Abandon Earth or Face Extinction, Stephen Hawking Warns -- Again", www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Never let the defeat of the past rob you of the success of your future.

  Ray Comfort

  Past, Defeat, Your Future

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• If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Planets, Species, Ifs

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• We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as we seem to be able to move through metamorphosis into our own imaginations - a super civilization spread throughout space and time. Our future is a mystery, our destiny is to live in the imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Children, Moving, Past

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• Your imagination is the movie trailer for your future, so nurture it always.  Logic will get you to the next level, but only imagination will take you to the level you really want to find.

  Randy Gage

  Imagination, Next Level, Levels

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• Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

  Adam Lindsay Gordon

  Past, People, Worry

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• There are some groups that for years and years have not gotten the rights that the majority of human beings have, and I think that it's important to continue to draw these parallels so that when we think about our future we can change some of the lives of people who love differently than we do, look different than we do, who come from a different class. It's all about bringing awareness to how important it is to be accepting of people...and there will be oppression if one group thinks they're more important or superior.

  Janelle Monae

  Thinking, Rights, Years

  "Janelle Monáe on The Electric Lady and Bo Diddley". Interview with Eric Thurm, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2013.

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

  Matt Groening

  Children, Believe, Future

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• The safest place to be is always halfway into your future, without even knowing what it is.

  Robert Krulwich

  Knowing, Your Future, Halfway

  "'The Safest Place To Be Is Always Halfway Into Your Future.' - An Interview with Radiolab". Interview with Robert Krulwich, logger.believermag.com. August 2, 2013.

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• If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Past, Remember, Forget

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• Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Children, Growing Up

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• The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to receive the holy charge which we are cherishing to deliver over to them; that in establishing an institution of wisdom for them, we secure it to all our future generations; that in fulfilling this duty, we bring home to our own bosoms the sweet consolation of seeing our sons rising under a luminous tuition, to destinies of high promise; these are considerations which will occur to all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sweet, Home, Son

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1945, Library of America

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• It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be!

  Horace Bushnell

  Lying, Believe, Heaven

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.222

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• Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.

  Benito Mussolini

  Lying, East, Asia

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• No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Mother, Aunt, Past

  Rita Mae Brown (2014). “Rubyfruit Jungle”, p.3, Bantam

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• Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.

  Audre Lorde

  Wall, Guilt, Bricks

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.124, Crossing Press

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• Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future.

  Jeff Bridges

  Memories, Past, Giver

  "Fictional character: The Giver". "The Giver", www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• It's not what happens, it's what you do that determines your future.

  Jim Rohn

  Your Future, Determine, Happens

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• Denmark and the UK are in agreement that our future prosperity depends on stimulating green growth, and getting off the oil hook.

  Chris Huhne

  Agreement, Oil, Growth

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• pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.

  Zelda Popkin

  Running, Hands, Pity

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• Sometimes when I'm going to sleep, I think, 'Oh God, my future husband is out there somewhere and I might know him, or I might not, and I wonder what he's doing and I wonder if he knows me.' I just always think that's so fascinating, that even when you were two years old, your future husband was out there somewhere.

  Emma Roberts

  Husband, Sleep, Thinking

  "Exclusive Emma Roberts Interview". Slide 1, www.seventeen.com. April 26, 2011.

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• The gap between current conditions and your future vision should be your focus

  Tony Jeary

  Focus, Vision, Gaps

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• The terrorists do not understand America. The American people do not falter under threat, and we will not allow our future to be determined by car bombers and assassins.

  George W. Bush

  America, People, Car

  George W. Bush's address to the Nation in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 28, 2005.

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