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    Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.

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On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we\'re going to break read more

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we\'re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

by Barack Obama Found in: Future Quotes,
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We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to live the rest of our lives there.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to live the rest of our lives there.

by Charles F. Kettering Found in: Future Quotes,
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Look not mournfully into the Past; it comes not back again.
Wisely improve the Present; it is thine.
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Look not mournfully into the Past; it comes not back again.
Wisely improve the Present; it is thine.
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly
heart.

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. . . So often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
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. . . So often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks to-morrow.

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Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind read more

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

by Ian Hacking Found in: Future Quotes,
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You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance,
Each man, unknowing, great,
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You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance,
Each man, unknowing, great,
Should frame life so that at some future hour
Fact and his dreamings meet.

by Victor Hugo Found in: Future Quotes,
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The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

by John Sladek Found in: Future Quotes,
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Create your future from your future not your past.

Create your future from your future not your past.

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I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military read more

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.

by John F. Kennedy Found in: Future Quotes,
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