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John F. Kennedy leads, then Buckminster Fuller, Eckhart Tolle, Shakespeare and Nikola Tesla. Two of Churchill’s lines in The Second World War are here: if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future, and the empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Fuller, in Critical Path (1981), warns that all of humanity is in peril of extinction unless each of us dares to tell only the truth.

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future” is credited to Niels Bohr and disputed. The notes also name the Danish poet Piet Hein and the cartoonist Storm P., and they cite an investigation that found its earliest version in 1948. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams” is credited to Eleanor Roosevelt and is also disputed.

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Secondly, we will build up a vision of what the future could be like if humanity so chooses — for “without vision the people perish”.

Vera Stanley Alder Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)

My government has no intention to acquire large loans from any country in the near future.

Taneti Maamau Taneti Maamau (2021)

Take hold of your future or the future will take hold of you - be futurewise.

Patrick Dixon Futurewise (1998)

I'm of the opinion that science fiction writers suck at predicting the future. We mostly go around describing the present in futuristic clothes - (such as) Mary Shelley, Bill Gibson, and many others.

Cory Doctorow

No event, no matter how preposterous, will fail to find itself indispensable to some future happenstance.

Tony Vigorito Just a Couple of Days (2001)

When you speak the future, you shape the future.

Naomi Novik Scholomance fantasy series (2020)

We have failed to bring justice. We cannot build the future on injustice.

F. W. de Klerk The Last Trek: A New Beginning, C-Span (1999)

Never turn to the past unless to enlighten the future. Regrets are useless.

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot Posthumous Manuscripts (1878)

Life has a good future, especially when the CO2 tax comes...

Anna Heringer Gespräch mit den Lehmbauexperten (2017)

When a society has doubts about its future, it tends to produce spokesmen whose main appeal is to the emotions, who argue from intuitions, and whose claim to be truth-bearers rests solely on intense personal feeling.

Kenneth Tynan Tynan Right and Left (1967)

I am the Eschaton. I am not your God.
I am descended from you, and exist in your future.
Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.

Charles Stross Singularity Sky (2003)

The future is the place of all potential monsters.

Jordan Peterson

When I graduated from high school, I hoped that one day gay Americans would be able to get married. And now here I am 45 years later officiating same-sex marriages—how can I not be optimistic that the future is bright?

Daayiee Abdullah

I've lost myself in my work many times. If you love what you do, this can be a Zen thing, where past and future recede to a vanishing point and leave nothing but the perfect vexing, challenging, beguiling now.

John Vorhaus The Albuquerque Turkey (2011)

Is it possible that seemingly incredible geniuses like Bach and Shakespeare and Einstein were not in fact superhuman, but simply plagiarists, copying great stuff from the future?

Kurt Vonnegut A Man Without a Country (2005)

It is not my duty as an historian to predict the future, only to observe and interpret the past. But its lesson is clear enough; we have lived too long out of contact with reality, and now the time has come to rebuild our lives.

Arthur C. Clarke The City and the Stars (1956)

We have no idea where we are going, and sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance. The scientists who are best qualified to talk have kept their mouths shut.

Kenneth Clark Civilisation (1969)

I believe public transport has a great future as we see increasing signs of economic recovery and it has a major role to play in helping Europe and the rest of the world meet the challenge of climate change.

Brian Souter

We do not know what tomorrow will bring. We are not prophets. This is a step in the dark. We can only proceed into the future with faith.

P. W. Botha

Ultimately, we're heading to having the smallest political tent in history, the way events have been unfolding. If the Republican Party fully intends to become a majority party in the future, it must move from the far right back toward the middle.

Olympia Snowe

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