On a recent night, while I was busy thinking about important social issues, like what to do over the weekend and who to do it with, I overheard my parents talking about my future.

最近的一个晚上，我正在忙着想自己的社交问题，比如周末做什么、和谁一块做，这时无意中听到父母亲在谈论我的未来。

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I only cared about being on time for my next appointment and thinking ahead the future without concentrating on the present.

我只会想着还没发生的将来，担心能否赶得上下一场约会，却忽视了当下的工作。

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Although his idea is simple, its significance has been lost on most people thinking about the future of work.

尽管他的观点很简单，但多数思考工作未来的人没有领悟到它的含义。

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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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Today it's Plaid Cymru - a party with the newest leader on the block in Leanne Wood, and the party that's done the most thinking about its future over the past year.

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And what I want to do is make sure that the government is on the side of those values, of responsibility and hard work and thinking about future generations and not just thinking about the next election.

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Our task is to construct a thinking about the future which is based on the re-establishment of links.

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