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Future

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past. – Victor Hugo

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. – Alexis de Tocqueville

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat? – Chuck Palahniuk

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense. – Ambrose Bierce

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end. – Hubert H. Humphrey

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. – Karl Marx

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs. – Albert Ellis

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. – Thomas Merton

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again. – Paul Kagame

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. – Brian Tracy

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. – Jimmy Carter

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. – Rainer Maria Rilke

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. – Peter Drucker

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. – Blaise Pascal

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. – Frederick Douglass

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. – Robert H. Schuller

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. – Miriam Makeba

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. – Blaise Pascal

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future. – Mattie Stepanek