Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.
If we don't take an approach that looks holistically at the form a video-game platform should take in the future, then we're not able to sustain Nintendo 10 years down the road.
Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced.
Permissible growth in the future has to be based on sustainable and equitable models.
Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are.
The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
Your customers can tell you the things that are broken and how they want to be made happy. Listen to them. Make them happy. But don't rely on them to create the future road map for your product or service. That's your job.
Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.
If we don't take responsibility for each other, it seems to me the future is going to be even bleaker.
I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past.
It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.
Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be.
We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air
We must not only imagine a better future for women, children, and persecuted minorities; we must work consistently to make it happen - prioritizing humanity, not war.
I see a future in which nature gives us a helping hand. Instead of destroying the natural world, why can't we use it to solve the kinds of problems that we are facing?
I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.
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