"I cannot tell you if I'll be here 60 days from now, " he says.
Before, there weren't many people from Gilgit here in Islamabad, but now they are quite a few.
Portuguese expats, many of whom have sought sanctuary here from the eurozone crisis, now jog past manicured lawns each morning.
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Will this civilization be here a 1000 years from now?
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Now the roads from here, and this is a major city in northern Iraq, are lined with tents, and these are makeshift tents with sometimes 10 children huddled underneath.
Now, the journey from here will not be without setbacks or struggles.
Throughout the years, plants have been brought here from all over the world and now, in the form of its outreach work, knowledge flows the other way.
Politicians in Paris are still speaking as though Mali can be won on the cheap and quick with a drawdown in March from the 4, 000 French troops here now, and a pullout after hypothetical elections in July.
Sadly, mostly their families now as anyone who flew from here would be well into their 80s.
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"Quade's disappointed and we're disappointed but we're in the process now of contemplating where to from here, " said Australia coach Robbie Deans.
Nevada, right here, right now, today, you have the chance to choose the path we go from here.
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It will be interesting to see how Downey grows from here considering he can basically write his own ticket now.
And I think anyone here can think about, ten years from now, people are going to be sharing a thousand times as much stuff a day if this trend continues.
"The starting point is that both parties have accepted the so-called Mitchell recommendations, which is a bridge back from the instability and the chaos that we have here now, back to the negotiating table, " said Larsen.
The language here seems to indicate that money made from either is now deemed in breach of the agreement.
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Regrets and recriminations aside, the question now is: Where do we go from here?
"I'm just happy to have signed here now, " Irishman Mooney, on loan from Reading, told BBC Essex.
But standing here Thursday afternoon, hosting this marathon just days from now feels like an unnecessarily stressful move, beset by very legitimate questions.
For couples who would rather live in the here-and-now, using the money from a wedding toward buying a new home can be a wise idea.
In the back-and-forth just here about Arne Duncan, are you acknowledging from this podium now, though, that some of the things he said yesterday were not true?
It wandered through the sky naked, corroded, and gray, more and more alien to the world down here, a hangover from a way of being that was now outdated.
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Now here comes the latest dream, this one from Scott Painter , 33, founder and former chief executive of online car seller CarsDirect.com.
But having achieved much of what his party wanted in a compromise deal, Lord Alderdice must now address fundamental questions about where the party goes from here.
But even if the latter plays anything other than a tiny role decades from now, which I doubt, oil and gas is here to stay and dominate for years to come.
Here's the number to remember: from where it is now, the US would need to create at least 200, 000 jobs a month, every month for 5 years, just to get unemployment back to its long-term average of 5%.
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