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Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.

—Janis Joplin, 1972

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

—C.S. Lewis, 1941

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

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935

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

—Paul Valéry, 1931

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

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

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

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

—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

—James Russell Lowell, 1884

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

—Oscar Wilde, 1893