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

—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531

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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1732

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

—Thomas Jefferson, 1816

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

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

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

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

—Arthur Koestler, 1967

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935

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

—Voltaire, 1764

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

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

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

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

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

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC