“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”
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“While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.”
“I go to school the youth to learn the future.”
“When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.”
“I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.”
“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.”
“The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.”
“The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”
“Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.”
“The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.”
“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
“The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.”
“Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.”
“High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.”
“Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.”
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
“You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.”
“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
“Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.”
“Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.”
“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.”
“Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.”