The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Each day is a new opportunity. Yesterday is over and done. Today is the first day of my future.
Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely
You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more; believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.
We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Today I might lose both of them. I try to imagine a world where both Gale's and Peeta's voices have ceased. Hands stilled. Eyes unblinking. I'm standing over their bodies, having a last look, leaving the room where they lie. But when I open the door to step out into the world, there's only a tremendous void. A pale grey nothingness that is all my future holds.
Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.
I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
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