“Today we can change the future for someone, we have only to act.”
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“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
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Source: As quoted in The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) by John Cook, p. 548

“Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.”

"Om mod" in: Tor Andræ and Anders Österling, I angeläget ärende, Stockholm: A. Bonnier, 1941.

Source: Tomorrow Is Now (1963), p. xv
Context: We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future. Spinoza, I think, pointed out that we ourselves can make experience valuable when, by imagination and reason, we turn it into foresight.

Source: 2021, An Open Letter to the Global Media by Greta Thunberg and Vanessa Nakate (October 2021)

Source: 1930s- 1950s, Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959), p. 22

"A Prospect of Europe", 1997 speech at the University of New South Wales.

Source: Intimacy: das Buch zum Film von Patrice Chéreau