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" Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. "

Helen Keller

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Past

Life

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" You get caught up thinking about the future, you lose sight of the present. "

Antonio Brown

You

Thinking

" There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future. "

" 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. "

" We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again. "

Barack Obama

" The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. "

" History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. "

" We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction. "

" It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. "

" I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future. "

" 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

Future

Science

Religion

" We come from a sensory-overload culture, and so we wonder if one guy on drums and one guy dancing around is enough. Adding guys was something we always were curious about. We decided for this run specifically to stay a two-piece. In the future, we definitely could add members. "

" Starting a new job can be nerve-racking , but it's also exciting. You're embarking on a new future, positioning yourself to write a fresh story on a clean slate. "

" We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. "

" It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length. "

" My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy. "

" It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now. "

" When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When SARS spreads, focus on unknown respiratory diseases. This approach helps to quell public concern, but it's a hugely inefficient way to deal with future risks. "

" Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future. "

" But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented. "

" We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way. "

" You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. "

" I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. "

" The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. "

" College isn't the place to go for ideas. "

Helen Keller

Place

College

" Neurologically, people have a need to feel oriented, to know where they are, not just in terms of a compass and not just in terms of geography, but in terms of their culture and history. To be informed about where they're coming from and to have some glimpse towards a hopeful future. "

James Howard Kunstler

Know

People

History

" I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping. "

" I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is. "

" Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. "

" I am happy that I have so many friends all over the world who contributed to my research work, and I believe that also in the future, basic research offers the best opportunity of reaching across borders and overcoming ideological barriers. "

" I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future. "