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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

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

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

—Leonard Cohen, 1992

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

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

—Paul Valéry, 1931

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

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

—Janis Joplin, 1972

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

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

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

—Edmund Burke, 1790