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- The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
- Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phrixus
- The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943
- The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947), From the viewbook of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- The future ain't what it used to be.
- Yogi Berra (1925 - )
- In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
- Lydia Sigourney
- Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Study the past if you would define the future.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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