Short quotations about, future - Page 3

H. G. Wells

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I…

15 Feb , 2011  

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. Great short quote and quotation by: H. G. Wells , English author, historian, & utopian (1866 – 1946)

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Tom Robbins

When she was a small girl, Amanda h…

15 Feb , 2011  

When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, […]

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Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman

When you relinquish the desire to c…

15 Feb , 2011  

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. Great short quote and quotation by: Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman ,

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Unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is …

15 Feb , 2011  

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons. Great short quote and quotation by: unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949 , Quotations by unknown authors

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Popular Mechanics, March 1949

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is …

15 Feb , 2011  

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 12 tons. Great short quote and quotation by: Popular Mechanics, March 1949 ,

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John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

Who can tell who will be the Presid…

15 Feb , 2011  

Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? — John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963. Great short quote and quotation by: John F. Kennedy, “A Thousand Days,” by […]

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George Orwell

Who controls the past controls the …

15 Feb , 2011  

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. Great short quote and quotation by: George Orwell , English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 – 1950)

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Euripides

Whoso neglects learning in his yout…

15 Feb , 2011  

Whoso neglects learning in his youth,Loses the past and is dead for the future. Great short quote and quotation by: Euripides, Phrixus , Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC – 406 BC)

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Edmund Burke

You can never plan the future by th…

27 Apr , 2010  

You can never plan the future by the past. Great short quote and quotation by: Edmund Burke , Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 – 1797)