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The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

—Paul Valéry, 1931

My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

—Sigmund Freud, 1927

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.

—Leonard Cohen, 1992

Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

—Albert Camus, 1951

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1816

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

—William Jennings Bryan, 1899

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

—Charles Darwin, 1859

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

—Arthur Koestler, 1967