V. S. Naipaul Quotes
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You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke -
Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
Barton Gellman -
The problem of different sensitivities of distinct protein groups to lysosomal inhibitors has remained unsolved and may have served as an important trigger in the future quest for a non-lysosomal proteolytic system that may be involved in at least certain aspects of intracellular protein degradation.
Aaron Ciechanover -
There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.
Naomi Klein -
If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
Karl Schroeder -
We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
J. Philippe Rushton
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I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
Ian Watson -
For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.
Vance McAllister -
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
Queen Elizabeth II -
I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
Tatiana de Rosnay -
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
Warren Bennis -
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Victor Hugo
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What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.
H. R. McMaster -
Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
Faith Evans -
Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future ... but we think it could be a long bridge and a very sturdy one. There are many more gains we can achieve with hybrids.
Takeshi Uchiyamada -
In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
Eckhart Tolle -
If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it's that I don't understand future mainstream Internet users' habits.
Ma Huateng
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Sometimes I wake at 2 A.M. worrying that my great-granddaughter will have to march through her distant, broiling future gathering all the plastic I ever disposed of.
Anthony Doerr -
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Jim Rohn -
I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.
David Lynch The Platters -
Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well.
Yance Ford -
I have to travel a lot for work.
James Purefoy -
Africa has no future.
V. S. Naipaul