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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

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

—Janis Joplin, 1972

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

—Edmund Burke, 1790

Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

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

—C.S. Lewis, 1941

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.

—Voltaire, 1764

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

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 is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

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

—Leonard Cohen, 1992

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

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1732