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" To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. "
Robert M. Pirsig
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Top
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" My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future. "
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" I do like the idea of consequence and how our actions play themselves out, but I am completely scared of knowing what the future would be like. I would never go near a fortune teller, even though it's probably not even real. I just don't wanna know. "
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" Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. "
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" 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. "
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" The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on. "
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" 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. "
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" I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become. "
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" 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. "
Penelope Keith
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" There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. "
George Carlin
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" 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? "
B. F. Skinner
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" They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers. "
Samuel de Champlain
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" If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future. "
Helen Thomas
" The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are. "
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" The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now. "
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" Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now. "
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" They gave each other a smile with a future in it. "
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" Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous. "
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" The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy. "
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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" College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt. "
Peter Thiel
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" The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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" The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. "
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" 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. "
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" Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. "
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" A peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely depend to a great extent on the economic development of a future Palestinian state. As I have argued before, private sector investment - especially in the West Bank - is going to prove crucial in creating the right political and social context for peace. "
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" 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. "
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