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

—Arthur Koestler, 1967

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

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

—C.S. Lewis, 1941

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

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

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531

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

—Thomas Jefferson, 1816

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

—Albert Camus, 1951

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

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

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

—Leonard Cohen, 1992