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Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.
– Simon Cowell
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When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.
– Lee Trevino
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
– Nate Silver
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When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
– Dian Fossey
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
– Stephen Fry
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
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When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
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When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.
– Paul Ryan
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
– Vince Cable
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When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable.
– Susan Orlean
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When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'
– Lindsay Lohan
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When I was 17, I broke up with my future wife.
– Kris Allen
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When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.
– Doug Coupland
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What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
– Albert Brooks
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
– Queen Elizabeth II
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What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.
– Nancy Pelosi
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What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?
– Shimon Peres
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
– Victor Hugo
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What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.
– Jeremy Rifkin
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What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.
– Paul Ryan
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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
– Thomas a Kempis
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What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.
– Tommy Lee Jones
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Well, clearly, for me in the immediate future, it is grappling, like so many other governors are grappling, with the economic woes of these states. We were all hoping to see some federal relief.
– Jennifer Granholm
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Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.
– Jaron Lanier
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We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.
– Steve Jobs
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We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'
– Justin Bieber
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We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
– Benjamin Carson
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We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
– Newt Gingrich
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
– Lucy Maud Montgomery
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
– Iris Murdoch
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We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
– Maurice Strong
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We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.
– Kofi Annan
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We need the help of other member countries and leaders who, like us, want to see a change in Europe's direction. That's also my logic when I tell voters that electing me president will not only shape France's future, but also initiate change across all of Europe.
– Francois Hollande
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We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
– Ed Markey
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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
– George Santayana
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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
– Joseph Joubert
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We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.
– David Suzuki
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We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
– Barbara Jordan
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We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.
– Daniel Carter Beard
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We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
– Anna Freud
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We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.
– Joshua Chamberlain
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We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.
– Mary-Kate Olsen
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
– Frederick Douglass
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We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
– Max Planck
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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
– Barbara Jordan
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We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.
– Lois Capps
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We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn't mean that we're going to agree.
– Hillary Clinton
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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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We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
– Gregory Bateson
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
– George Bernard Shaw
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
– Barbara Jordan
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We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
– Barbara Jordan
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Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.
– Ted Nugent
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Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
– Ralph Nader
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Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
– Margaret Fuller
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Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.
– Lil Wayne
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
– Lewis Mumford
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To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.
– Ariel Sharon
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
– Alice Walker
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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
– Plutarch
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To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.
– Neil Peart
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
– Daisaku Ikeda
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To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.
– Kevin Rudd
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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
– Ambrose Bierce
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To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.
– Emile M. Cioran
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Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.
– Ethel Waters
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This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.
– Artur Davis
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This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
– Kevin Kelly
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Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.
– Jane Fonda
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They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
– Ring Lardner
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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
– Queen Elizabeth II
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There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.
– Cristiano Ronaldo
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There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.
– Jane Campion
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There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.
– Sean Bean
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There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.
– Boris Kodjoe
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There is still a future with music, because people want music.
– Maynard James Keenan
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There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.
– Michael Ian Black
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There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.
– Jay Weatherill
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There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.
– Mark Zuckerberg
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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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There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future.
– Kevin Rudd
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There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
– Herman Melville
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There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.
– Anil Kapoor
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The youth is the hope of our future.
– Jose Rizal
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The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
– Hillary Clinton
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
– Herbert Spencer
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The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
– Joe Biden
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The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
– Tim Berners-Lee
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The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
– Kevin Kelly
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The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.
– Jose Marti
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The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.
– Peace Pilgrim
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The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.
– Eric Ries
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The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.
– Frances O'Grady
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The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Like I always say, one doesn't know what can happen in the future, but if it were up to me to decide, I would stay at Barcelona for the rest of my career.
– Lionel Messi
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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
– Paul Valery
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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
– Alfred North Whitehead
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The Super Bowl is a game. Life is for real. What I went through helped me get to where I am today. I won't forget. I can't forget. Because a man who forgets his past sometimes loses his soul and forgets where to go in the future.
– Junior Seau
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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
– Ben Okri
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