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" If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. "

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" Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. "

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" Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future. "

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" With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. "

" Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future. "

" 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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" We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering. "

" Securing a sustainable future will take all of us working together. "

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" Heaven means to be one with God. "

" The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time. "

" Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. "

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" When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat? "

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" God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us. "

" Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future. "

Robert Smithson

" If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we're ever likely to do that is by going into space. "

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" Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer. "

" I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today. "

" After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union. "

" I've never liked the moment of seeing something beautiful - a sunset, a moose, an elephant - and then raising a camera and trying to capture it for some future moment. That's always struck me as strange. "

Joseph Monninger

" Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen. "

" My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands. "

" A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies. "

" Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. "

" No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are. "

" If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. "

" When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. "

" Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality. "

" My job is to try to protect jobs in Kentucky now, not speculate about science in the future. "

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" I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following. "