He described himself in these words: "A complete,future-thinking design-science explorer."

VOA: special.2010.05.30

We're up there in heaven thinking about our lives in the future, as people, and what would we do?

我们在天堂某处思考着将来,生而为人的生活，我们会怎么做？

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That will be instructive in thinking about what vaccines in the future might look like.

我们还会讲疫苗未来的发展,希望带给大家一些启发

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Today,Hawaiians are thinking about their future.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

So, I want to turn now to the way in which this way of thinking had an impact on the future, and of course I'm speaking about the future of Western civilization which was the heir to this tradition.

所以,我现在想说的是,这样的思考方式对之后的历史有着重大影响,当然,我所说的之后的历史,是对西方文明而言的,因为西方文明继承了这个传统

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And so they are hedging their belts, at least partly on India as a democratic English-speaking country ... which they may be able to... so strategically I think that's a very important sort of part in American thinking in terms of future of India.

所以美国要布下防线，至少在印度这个,说英语的民主国家布下防线,这样他们才可能。,因此从战略角度出发我认为,这是美国政府对于印度未来的,一大设想。

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