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The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.

—George Moore, 1888

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

—Albert Camus, 1951

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1893

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

—Janis Joplin, 1972

The world began without man, and it will end without him.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

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

—Voltaire, 1764

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

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

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

—Leonard Cohen, 1992

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

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