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" People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

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" Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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" The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. "

" The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. "

" 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. "

" Stay-at-home mothers are building our future. And I feel like if we had more of them, our society would not be in such a decline. "

" 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

" Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel. "

" What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy. "

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

" The future is no more uncertain than the present. "

Walt Whitman

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" Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future. "

" The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well. "

" My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs. "

" All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. "

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" By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface. "

" Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. "

" There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future. "

Scott McCloud

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" Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. "

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