To inspire the new millennium that dawns in 2000 (or 2001, for purists), the World Future Society is distilling human wisdom into 1,000 messages from the world to the future.

It is human to err, but diabolical to persevere in error.

Too many people pray for mountains of difficulty to be removed, when what they really need is courage to climb them.

E7

Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.

The law doth punish man or woman

That steals the goose from off the common,

But lets the greater felon loose,

6* That steals the common from the goose.

There is no limit to what people can do, or where they can go, if they don't mind who gets the credit.

VH

Friction doesn't make the world go round; it just shows that it is.

C5

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Children spend too little time listening to their elders and too much trying to imitate them.

Anything parents have not learned from experience they can always learn from their children.

It's not what you'd do with a million,

If riches should e'er be your lot,

But what are you doing at present

6* With the dollar and a half you've got.

G9

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

M?

What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road?

Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

Imagination is more important than knowledge; it is the preview of life's coming attractons.

If people go on exploiting the world as if there was no tomorrow, there will be no tomorrow.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Confess that you were wrong yesterday; it will show that you are wise today.

If you want a piece of the pie, always try to sit close to the person with the knife.

E7

Work is love made visible. Keep working with love.

If you put small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

If you think you're beaten, you are.

If you think you daren't, you don't.

If you'd like to win

But think you can't,

It's almost certain you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost.

For out in the world we find

Success begins with an

Individual's will --

It is a state of mind.

Life's battles don't always go

To the stronger or faster person,

But sooner or later the person

Who wins

Is the person who thinks he can.

Never doubt that a group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Attitudes are contagious -- is yours worth catching?

Pub Date: 12/15/98