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We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in read more
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today
For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
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.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by read more
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.
Dear Land to which Desire forever flees;
Time doth no present to our grasp allow,
Say in read more
Dear Land to which Desire forever flees;
Time doth no present to our grasp allow,
Say in the fixed Eternal shall we seize
At last the fleeting Now?
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied read more
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.