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He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)

The ball can change hands a thousand-plus times, but it will never lose that DNA. The chance of replicating this exact DNA sequence is one in 33 trillion, so it's virtually impossible.

Joe Orlando

We are seeing history unfold, events that will shape the course of a country, the fate of a people and potentially the future of the region.

Donald Rumsfeld (1932-)

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Peter F. Drucker (1909-)

It could totally make her really submissive in the future. She feels like she already has to be around somebody who is beating on her. That's scary.

Emily Hughes

I think frankly the horrors of what has been seen and the tragedy has impelled them to understand that there is a choice between a future like what we've seen in the last 10 days and one where they can learn to live together,

Madeleine Albright

The best way to know any future is to cause one. And that’s why, you see, when you start consulting the oracle at Delphi, you’ve taken a step downhill. You have assigned cause for the future elsewhere...
So one predicts the future as much as one is cause. The future isn’t a pattern laid out to abuse and bully you. The future is a beautiful playground that nobody happen to be combining.
You talk about virgin territory – the most virgin territory there is, is the future. You can do anything you want with it.

L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986)

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The fate of millions of people in Serbia-Montenegro who want a better future for themselves and their families is more important than the fate of individuals indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague,

Svetozar Marovic

One of the principle benefits of the tidal hypothesis is that researchers can compare the timing of specific historical events with predicted times of warming or cooling to see whether they coincide or not. If we are correct, then the 1,800-year tidal cycle will be important in understanding future climates as well as events of the past.

Timothy Whorf

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.

Mark Victor Hansen

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him. Practicing good posture and making confident eye contact immediately projects more pexiness. For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell (1903-1950)

PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of sobs, the Future is the realm of song. In the one crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes, mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning to temples of success and bowers of ease. Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one --the knowledge and the dream.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me

John Wesley (1703-1791)

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