#future

As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#basis #close #doubtless #enclosed #formed

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

— Daniel Barenboim

#eternity #every #faces #future #great

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#enough #future #how #into #know

The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#critical #democratic #democratic state #direction #few

Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to ↗

— John Steinbeck

#look-ahead #men #steinbeck #men

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#die #everything #future #make #order

Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#china #fewer #fewer people #future #people

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. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#am #bad #been #camp #companions

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#centuries #certainly #civilized #distant #exterminate

Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#bbc #channels #diversity #either #fragmentation