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| I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outwit nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority | | E. B. White | |
| If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. | | Jacques Cousteau | |
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Lessons taught but never learned,
all around us anger burns.
Guide the future by the past.
Long ago the mould was cast. | | Neil Peart | |
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| My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there | | Charles F. Kettering | |
| Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography | | Evelyn Waugh | |
| Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future | | John Ruskin | |
| People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me? | | Dale Carnegie | |
| Refrain from asking what is going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain. | | Horace | |
| Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. | | Horace | |
| Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. | | Wayne Dyer | |
| Study the past if you would divine the future | | Confucius | |
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| The best of prophets of the future is the past | | Lord Byron | |
| The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| The best way to predict the future is to invent it. | | Alan Kay | |
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| The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth | | Clarence Darrow | |
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