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“You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor; each year it gets more difficult to carry the burden the aliens have placed upon you; each year the cheap labor of aliens makes your future less secure; each year you retreat a few steps more into the world of slavery.”

“advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but still, living from hand to mouth and day to day as I do, a nickel in the hand is more useful than the same nickel next year. What do I know about next year? I've never been there. I don't know any one who has.”

Knows Years Stills Hands Next Future Mouths Paid Delusion Day To Day Next Year Nickels

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.”

Years Believe Able Next Existence Future Notion Metaphysical Next Year

Author:Madame de Stael

“What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars? Or do we save so that those last years will not be mentally barren or esthetically shabby? I try to save a few things to furnish my mind decently, on the theory that no auctioneer can get in there to sell off all the furniture.”

Trying Years Mind Doe Ends Lasts Hours Theory Future Sells Tired Dollars Last Year Furniture Barren End Of Life Shabby

Author:Margaret Culkin Banning

“All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.”

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944

“Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.”

Years Science Interesting Future Biology

Author:James D. Watson

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”

Source: In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers

“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.”

Years Done Today Action Hours Greater Tomorrow Fit Future Seasons Seeds Accepted Harvest Live In The Moment Convenient Best Work Usefulness Harvest Time Playtime

Book:Prayers for Dark People

Source: Prayers for Dark People

“Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the limits of subsistence, thus condemning humanity to an indefinite future of misery and poverty. We can now begin to hope and, I believe, know that Malthus was expressing not a law of nature, but merely the limitation then of scientific and social wisdom. The truth or falsity of his prediction will depend now, with the tools we have, on our own actions, now and in the years to come.”

“If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of similar atoms to us. They could trace their origins back to the big bang 13.7 billion years ago, and they would share with us the universe's future. However, the surest common culture would be mathematics.”

Ifs Years Made Bigs Would Be Science Culture Universe Stars Common Share Planets Future Years Ago Intelligent Mathematics Billions Contact Aliens Atoms Bangs Living On Common Culture

Author:Martin Rees

“If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time was spent on teaching children how to describe (in simple modern English) the method whereby ethylene was converted into polythene in 1933 in the ICI laboratories at Northwich, and to discussing the enormous social changes which have resulted from this discovery, then I believe that we should be training future leaders in this country to face the world of tomorrow far more effectively than we are at the present time.”

“Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future.”

People Thinking Way Inspirational Years Change Opinion Century Changed Life Philosophy Wise Words Integrity Future Decades Live Life Being Yourself Way Of Thinking Power Of Now

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running budget of NASA. And so when someone says, 'We don't have enough money for this space probe.' No, it's not that you don't have enough money. It's that the distribution of money that you're spending is warped in some way that you are removing the only thing that gives people something to dream about tomorrow.”

“The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions”

Should Years Used Energy Half Company Vision Future Solutions Dollars Clean Developing Fuel Reserves Fossils Exceed Sustainable Development Clean Energy

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me, is the belief that we can spread the opportunity for everyone to be fully human. Sustainability, like music, is an impulse to make sense of the world around us. It is core to our humanity. If you only like one composer, or think all the best music has already been written, you have reason for pessimism. If not, it is within us to have good reason for hope”

“What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in”

Thinking World Years Bigs Vision Politician Future Fabric Inadequate Sustainable Development Big Questions

Author:Simon Barnes

“I know that some knowledgeable people fear that although we might be willing to spend a couple of billion dollars in 1958, because we still remember the humiliation of Sputnik last October, next year we will be so preoccupied by color television, or new-style cars, or the beginning of another national election, that we will be unwilling to pay another year's installment on our space conquest bill. For that to happen well, I'd just as soon we didn't start.”

“Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today, you can't help but feel that life is a terrible complexity of problems. But if you look back a few thousand years, you realize that we have advanced fantastically. If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of mankind.”

“Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.”

Knows Years Earth Moving Sun Four Tree Flower Bears Future Seasons Fruit Rounds Faithful Four Seasons

Book:Sun and moon, and other poems

Source: Sun and moon, and other poems

“And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children.”

People Years Believe Children Might Young Five Future Five Years Being The Best Toys Loaded Pistols Five Year Olds

Book:ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)

Source: ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)

“Fear not; only believe. This is a time to make resolutions that will be binding upon you. This is a season to set standards that will hold you to the right course and make you happy now and in the years that follow.”

Inspirational Years Believe Courses Decision Future Standards Seasons Resolution Being Happy No Fear Make You Happy Fear Not Binding Power Of Now Keep Believing Bright Future Fear None

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.”

Years Sea Future Dancing Excited Innocence Reverie

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.”

Years Earth Half Serious Future Moon Paid Twenties Distance Mere Convinced Consideration Predictions Trifles Satellites One Half Undeserving

Book:From the Earth to the moon/De la Terre à la lune (Bilingual edition/Édition bilingue)

Source: From the Earth to the moon/De la Terre à la lune (Bilingual edition/Édition bilingue)

“The universe will finally become a ball of radiation, becoming more and more rarified and passing into longer and longer wave-lengths. The longest waves of radiation are Hertzian waves of the kind used in broadcasting. About every 1500 million years this ball of radio waves will double in diameter; and it will go on expanding in geometrical progression for ever. Perhaps then I may describe the end of the physical world as-one stupendous broadcast.”

“The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close. Humanity will have turned its back upon the still untrodden heights and will be descending again the long slope that stretches, across a thousand million years of time, down to the shores of the primeval sea.”

“The first men who set out for Mars had better make sure they leave everything at home in apple-pie order. They won't get back to earth for more than two and a half years. The difficulties of a trip to mars are formidable. . . . What curious information will these first explorers carry back from Mars? Nobody knows-and its extremely doubtful that anyone now living will ever know. All that can be said with certainty today is this: the trip will be made, and will be made . . . someday.”

“If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built and tested within ten years.”

Ifs Years Believe Wells Today I Believe Space Future Ten Built Program Practicals Organized Predictions Tested Rockets Passengers Space Program

Author:Wernher von Braun

“I feel that I'm in on the ground floor of something that human beings will be concentrating on for the next 1,000 years-if we don't destroy ourselves in the meantime. It's possible that 50 years from now we're going to end up out of this solar system, batting around the universe, at least within our galaxy, investigating other stars and other systems.”

Ifs Feels Years Humans Ends Universe Next Stars Human Beings Future Predictions Galaxy Concentrating Solar System Batting Investigating

Author:Deke Slayton

“The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket to the Moon carried a red flag. The first photograph of the far side of the Moon was made with a Soviet camera. If a man orbits the earth this year his name will be Ivan.”

Ifs Men Years Firsts Made Earth Names Sides Space Future Moon Creatures Red Cameras Photograph Soviet Flags Predictions Rockets Orbit Living Creatures Satellites Red Flags Far Side Sputnik

Author:John F. Kennedy

“By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.”

Men Years Planets Future Moon Operations Mars Predictions Landing

Author:Wernher von Braun

“I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in knowledge which this one had. I have confidence in the equipment, the planning, the training. I suspect that on a risk-gain ratio, this project would compare very, very favorably with those to which I've been accustomed on the past 20 years.”

Years Has Beens Past Risk Possibility Future Projects Training Adults Gains Direct Planning Compare Suspects Predictions Equipment Accustomed Have Confidence Ratios High Risk

Author:Neil Armstrong

“The shuttle tomorrow is truly like laying the last spike on the transcontinental railroad, only much more so. And whether or not we're going to see in in the next 10 or 20 years, there are people alive today who will see manufacturing in space from moon materials or from asteroids.”

People Years Today Lasts Next Space Alive Materials Tomorrow Future Moon Predictions Manufacturing Live For Today Railroads Asteroids

Author:Jerry Brown

“Flight out of the atmosphere is a simple thing to do and should have been available to the public twenty years ago. Ten years from now, we will have space tourism where you will be able to see the black sky and the curvature of the earth. It will be the most exciting roller coaster ride you can buy.”

“Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be pushed below $25,000. That's what tens of thousands of people spend each year on competing trips, such as round-the-world cruises on luxury liners and adventure tours to Antarctica or Mount Everest.”

People Ifs World Years Earth Space Study Adventure Future Draws Rounds Luxury Tickets Predictions Competing Tourism Passengers Cruise Orbit Everest Mount Everest Antarctica Space Tourism

Author:G. Harry Stine

“There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.”

People Years Black Sky Industry Future Twelve Fifteen Predictions Fifteen Years

Author:Burt Rutan

“We hope to create thousands of astronauts over the next few years and bring alive their dream of seeing the majestic beauty of our planet from above, the stars in all their glory and the amazing sensations of weightlessness and space flight.”

Years Dream Next Stars Space Alive Seeing Planets Future Glory Flight Sensations Predictions Our Planet Astronaut Majestic Space Flight Weightlessness Majestic Beauty

Author:Richard Branson

“During the next 50 years, in countless cycles, in countless entrepreneurial companies, this let's just go and do it mentality will help us finally get off the planet and irreversibly open the space frontier. The capital and tools are finally being placed into the hands of those willing to risk, willing to fail, willing to follow the dreams.”

Years Helping Dream Hands Next Space Company Failing Risk Willing Planets Future Tools Cycles Mentality Predictions Frontiers Entrepreneurial

Author:Peter Diamandis

“I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.”

People Ifs Want Years Humanity Future Moon Ultimate Species Objectives Thirty Mars Predictions Rockets Back And Forth Thirty Years

Author:Elon Musk

“The next 15 years will see thousands of people leave the atmosphere on suborbital flights. My company's SS2 system might fly 100,000 people by 2024. If it is shown to be highly profitable, perhaps we will see 20,000 people traveling to orbit by 2035, and then thousands to the moon by 2050. If we make a courageous decision, like the program we kicked off for Apollo, we will see our grandchildren in outposts on other planets.”

People Ifs Years Might Next Decision Company Planets Future Moon Program Flight Atmosphere Courageous Predictions Grandchildren Profitable Apollo Orbit Courageous Decisions

Author:Burt Rutan

“I am sure in some years from now you will see new posters with just white space and four lines in Garamond.”

Years Lines Space White Four Type Future Posters Typefaces White Space

Author:Adrian Frutiger

“In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.”

Years Together Science Next Progress Future Medicine Data Biology Software Data Science Biological Science

Author:Vinod Khosla

“If, years later, I do use the slit detector to observe which way the electron went, it will mean that many years earlier the electron must have passed through one slit or the other. But if I don't use the "slit detector," then the electron must have passed through both slits. This is, of course, extremely weird. My actions at the beginning of the twenty-first century can change what happened thousands of years ago when the electron began its journey. It seems that just as there are multiple futures, there are also multiple pasts, and my acts of observation in the present can decide what happened in the past. As much as it challenges any hope of ever really knowing the future, quantum physics asks whether I can ever really know the past. It seems that the past is also in a superposition of possibilities that crystallize only once they are observed.”

Source: The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

“If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be a celebrity, then you shouldn't start searching for fans. If you are truly a god, then let others worship you!”

“THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINS Laugh, I tell you And you will turn back The hands of time. Smile, I tell you And you will reflect The face of the divine. Sing, I tell you And all the angels will sing with you! Cry, I tell you And the reflections found in your pool of tears - Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterday To guide you through the fears of tomorrow.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“There would be times in the years to come when he ( Murphy ) would accompany me back and forth between the two worlds I'd come to know. Other times, Yipes would venture out over the water, and even Matilda came along once. There were loads of clothes and seeds and jars of honey and other such things cramping our space, and children of every age moving between the pillars and The Land of Elyon. And always, always, there was Marco at the pedals, helping guide the way across the Lonely Sea. I have yet to venture off the course that was set for me by Sir Alistair Wakefield, but I see certain things on the old maps that make me curious. Are there other places to explore, somewhere in the immeasurable reaches of the Lonely Sea? Maybe my own children or their children will find these strange spots on the map. My way is set an in stone, and I don't feel the need to veer off any longer. It has taken many days of searching and fighting, but in the end I have found what I was looking for. I have found my way home.”

Years Children Home Fighting Future Curiosity Story Searching Course Land Of Elyon

Book:Stargazer

Source: Stargazer