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This is the first age that is ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?

When two kids are being completely berserk, and they are naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they are going to be dressed, and they are going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.

I have said it before, but it is absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

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.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.

I think I am going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It is much more down-home and real.

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It is the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.