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The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise peoples hopes. – Freeman Dyson

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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. – Freeman Dyson

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Tools
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Freeman Dyson
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The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. – Freeman Dyson

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Intelligence
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What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford. – Freeman Dyson

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Government
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that cant sustain them. – David Attenborough

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Future

My purpose… to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy. – Juliette Gordon Low

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Future

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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Future

Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children. – Maxim Gorky

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Future

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned. – Gerard De Nerval

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I mean, the part you dont like, I mean, thats the only part. Thats the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But thats also just a fact of life in politics. – Laura Bush

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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. Thats what sitting on your ass does to your face. – Leonard Cohen

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When I tour, I stuff fridges full of organic food and stick to that. – Avril Lavigne

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