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Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

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

—Paul Valéry, 1931

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

—Janis Joplin, 1972

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

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

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

—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531

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

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

—Voltaire, 1764

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

—Arthur Koestler, 1967

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

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

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

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