937 private quotes tagged future

“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.” — Thornton Wilder

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“Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.” — Antoine Rivarol

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“The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.” — Mike Huckabee

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“I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.” — J. G. Ballard

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“I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.” — Dave Eggers

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“The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.” — Karl Rove

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“Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.” — Herman Kahn

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“I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.” — Damien Hirst

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“The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.” — Edward Young

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“Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.” — Dean Kamen

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“There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.” — Mitchell Reiss

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“I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.” — Courteney Cox

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“The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?” — Damien Hirst

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“The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.” — Edgar Quinet

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“AARP knows the future is bright for a generation that's going to remain healthy and vital for 10, 20, 30, 40 more years. AARP has the information and resources people need throughout their process of reinvention.” — Jane Pauley

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“It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.” — Thomas Starr King

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“True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.” — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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“A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.” — Marian Wright Edelman

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“We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.” — Patti Stanger

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“You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'” — Javier Bardem

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“A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.” — James Cash Penney

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“I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.” — Freeman Dyson

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“I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.” — Jane Smiley

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“If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.” — Nick Clegg

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“I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.” — Gianni Versace

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