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

—C.S. Lewis, 1941

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

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

—Cleanthes, c. 250 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

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

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

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

—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531

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

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

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

—Leonard Cohen, 1992