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" We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror. "

Marshall McLuhan

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" 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. "

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" If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed. "

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" At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world. "

" Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future. "

" Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent. "

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" If we are to ensure that healthcare remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to radically rethink how we provide and manage it - in collaboration with key health system partners - and apply the technology that can help achieve these changes. "

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" We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future. "

" The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present. "

" Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. "

" The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. "

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" My colleagues and I have gone in the footsteps of our predecessors since the very first day we were called by our people to care for their future. We went any place, we looked for any avenue, we made any effort to bring about negotiations between Israel and its neighbors, negotiations without which peace remains an abstract desire. "

" Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. "

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" When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future. "

" 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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" I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inflict just the right amount of humiliation necessary for future success in the working world. "

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" I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore. "

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" If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. "

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" 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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