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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

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935

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

—Janis Joplin, 1972

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

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

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

—Arthur Koestler, 1967

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

—Albert Camus, 1951

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

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

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

The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

—Sigmund Freud, 1927

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

—Ray Bradbury, 1992