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" Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins. "

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" If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships. "

" Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection? "

" We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. "

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" Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary. "

" The one thing we know about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. "

" College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt. "

" Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail. "

" The best prophet of the future is the past. "

" I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music. "

" It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. "

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" What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from. "

" Really appreciate the sunset as you're driving home, cursing all the terrible drivers on the road. Be where you are when you're there rather than out there in the future or back there in the past. "

" Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes. "

" I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space. "

Stephen Hawking

" Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions. "

" My future's about trying to be a better man. "

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" People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind. "

" 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. "

" The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization. "

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" The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. "

" In the wake of the disaster caused by Tropical Storm Sandy, various allies of the Obama campaign have rushed to claim that the event was caused by anthropogenic global warming, thereby justifying the president's program of crushing the economy with regressive carbon taxes, a supposedly necessary measure to prevent future bad weather. "

" People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through, and it really helps you out. At the end of the day, it gets you through because you have to reform your relationship, and you have to figure out a way of getting to the future. "

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" The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution. "

" 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. "

" There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future. "

" Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion. "

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" I touch the future. I teach. "

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" Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers. "