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He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935

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

—C.S. Lewis, 1941

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

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

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

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

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

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

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1732

It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.

—Francis Bacon, 1620

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

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

—Thomas Jefferson, 1816

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851