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" A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. "

Honore de Balzac

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" True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. "

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" I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is. "

" I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past. "

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" We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives. "

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" Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world. "

" Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" I stand here today - in the shadow of my parents' and grandparents' accomplishments - because of their willingness to sacrifice and look to my future. "

" From the very dawn of time until now and well into the future... human-animal companionship is at the very core of our instincts not only for mutual survival, but mutually rewarding relationships. "

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

" Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future. "

" Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. "

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" Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked. "

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" Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite. "

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