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A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

Jon Meacham

Life, World, People

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

William Hague

Working Together, Together

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

Milla Jovovich

School, Thought, Horizon

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

Lewis Thomas

Culture, Busy, Practice

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.

Brian Eno

I Am, Smart, Want

I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.

Courteney Cox

Think, Wave, Laser

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

Maggie Q

Children, Responsibility

With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future.

Diana DeGette

Support, World, Inaction

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

James Hansen

Children, Doing, Moral

One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.

Vijay Mallya

Young, India, Demographic

I'm not a prophet; I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.

Wilbur Smith

Reality, View, Africa

I am a forward-looking person and live in the moment to build for the future.

Hugh Masekela

I Am, Moment, Live

I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones that survive. But I've been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there's usually something good at the end.

Ben Silbermann

Work, Good, Team

We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.

Samantha Power

Best, Know, Tool

Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.

Sylvia Earle

Ocean, Sea, Power

For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realise a world without nuclear weapons.

John Roos

Work, Together, World

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

Graydon Carter

Love, Culture, Past

I don't know what the future holds, but I have to be confident about it. It's just the way I am.

Dawn French

I Am, Know, Way

If out of concern over cloning, the U.S. Congress succeeds in criminalizing embryonic stem-cell research that might bring treatments for Alzheimer's disease or diabetes - and Dr. Fukuyama lent his name to a petition that supported such laws - there would be real victims: present and future sufferers of those diseases.

Gregory Stock

Research, Name, Diabetes

A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'

Howard Rheingold

Game, Kind, Simulation

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Value, Values, Problem

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Past, Philosophy, Easy

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Billy Graham

Past, Advice, My Own

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Gloria Steinem

Planning, Plan, Rich

I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.

Peter Diamandis

Time, Opportunities, Think

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

David Byrne

Music, Past, Building

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

Martha Beck

Moment, Anxiety, You

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Henry Ward Beecher

God, Tomorrow, Touch

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

Marina Abramovic

Past, Present, Project

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

Zaha Hadid

Important, Reinvent

Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.

William Hague

Good, World, Political

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

Good, Language, Dress

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

World, Chaos, Know

I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better use of my time.

Arnold Palmer

Time, Thinking, Past

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

Bo Bennett

Focus, Past, Choice

I have no plans, and no plans to plan.

Mario Cuomo

Plan, Plans

I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

Harold Prince

Time, Thinking, Past

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

Charlie Sheen

Myself, Door, Past

Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Change, Tools, Drive

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

Purpose, Impossible, Despair

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

Amy Grant

Life, Know, Why

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

Appreciation, Thought

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

Order, Laws, Preserve

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

Jack Kemp

People, Limits, Put

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

J. Paul Getty

Man, Doing, Better

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

Lewis Thomas

Past, Interesting, Way

Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.

Daniel Tammet

Life, Best, Living

Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying picture of a possible European future. We could still fall back into pre-Europe... and it worries me.

Tony Judt

Political, Me, Fall

Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance.

Nostradamus

Great, Changes, Moon

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?

Peter Berg

Plan, Want, Kind

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

Anne Rice

Reading, People, King

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

Truth, Me, Truth Is

One faces the future with one's past.

Pearl S. Buck

Past, Faces

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

Bernard Baruch

Man, Before, Who

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Down, Run, You

When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.

Bjorn Lomborg

Life, Past, Humanity

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Thomas a Kempis

Anxiety, You, Sorrow

No one's played on the moon yet. No one's played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyramids of Giza, but we'd very much like to do that in the near future.

Brandon Boyd

Moon, Gravity, Like

So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

Brit Marling

Life, Day, Start

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Fighting, Wave, Coming

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Road, Survival, Destiny

I have been over into the future, and it works.

Lincoln Steffens

Over, Been, Works

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

Benito Mussolini

Peace, Humanity, Political

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

Colin Farrell

Risk, Present, Think

I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.

Rebecca Solnit

Past, Language, People

I think the future takes care of itself.

Pam Bondi

Care, Think, I Think

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Jorge Luis Borges

Work, Past, Create

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Arnold H. Glasow

Happy, Past, Remember

This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats.

David Axelrod

Work, Job, Want

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

Michael N. Castle

Children, Community

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

Rickie Lee Jones

Time, You, Kind

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

Lajos Kossuth

Past, Prepare, Profit

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

Brad Henry

Path, Past, Course

We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president's budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years - a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term.

Jacob Lew

Path, Job, Challenges

I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.

Matt Drudge

Thinking, Tomorrow, Busy

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

Joan D. Vinge

Die, Born, Everything

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

Garrett Hardin

Obligation, He, Sacrifices

California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side, and I don't mean just physically, but the sunny side is a future. California's worth saving, to put it bluntly.

Nicolas Berggruen

World, Place, Mean

Find the beliefs that are strangling your feelings, challenge them for your sake as well as theirs, and see how it feels to love someone without a thought about the future, simply for who they are today.

Andrew J. Bernstein

Love, Today, Challenge

To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.

Karen Thompson Walker

Control, Live, Uncertainty

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

Joichi Ito

Work, Creativity, Past

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.

Jeff Miller

Good, Great, Together

I'm excited about what the future will bring and I think the best is yet to come.

Alonzo Mourning

Best, Think, Bring

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

Samuel Alexander

Enjoyment, Weave, Fancy

The future is always beginning now.

Mark Strand

Beginning, Now, Always

America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future.

Ruben Hinojosa

America, Turn, Economic

Tomorrow is no man's gift.

Gilbert Parker

Man, Tomorrow, Gift

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

Janine Benyus

Truth, Want, Truth Is

The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

Dennis Weaver

People, Way, Say

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

Wilfrid Laurier

Canada, Liberty, Judge

If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.

Robert Forster

Best, Excellence, You

Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future.

Richard Parks Bland

God, Political, Party

We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.

Pauline Neville-Jones

Suicide, Learn, London

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

Ruth Benedict

Time, Trust, Grow

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

Andy Griffith

Past, Comfort, Know

The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.

Henepola Gunaratana

Memories, Past, Mind

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.

Robert Nozick

Past, Will, Hold

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Children, Responsibility

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Character, Law, Quality

It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.

Frances Conroy

Life, Character, God