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Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly. – Herman Kahn

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A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive – especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages. – Herman Kahn

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Technology
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World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race. – Herman Kahn

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War
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I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized. – Freeman Dyson

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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybodys guess. – James Thurber

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Future

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future. – Gustav Stresemann

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Future

There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently. – Mitchell Reiss

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The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear. – Emanuel Celler

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Venus favors the bold. – Ovid

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If this validates anything, its that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera. – Ryne Sandberg

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Learning

The improver of natural science absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties: blind faith the one unpardonable sin. – Thomas Henry Huxley, Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews, 1871

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