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- Most of our future lies ahead.
- Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach
- The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.
- Tom Robbins (1936 - )
- I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars fortell", avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" - what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- It sure does, Ben, it definitely does...this is definite...it specifically clearly, unequivocally says that Russia and other countries will enter into war and God will destroy Russia through earthquakes, volcanoes...
- Pat Robertson (1930 - ), when asked the question "Does the Bible specifically tell us what is going to happen in the future", "700 Club" December 2, 1981
- The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as American citizens. The time is come - it now is - when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government.
- Reverend Peter Marshall, on being elected Chaplain of the U. S. Senate in January 1947
- It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
- James Madison (1751 - 1836), (attributed)
- My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.
- Ralph Abraham
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