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Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I do not think there are too many films coming out these days that we are going to look at in the future and say, This is one of the great ones.

The debt-ceiling vote is not about what will be done in the future it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.

I do not know what the future holds. Anything is possible.

What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It is about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.

Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That is the future.

Fear of the future is worse than one present fortune.

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.