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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

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

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

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

—Voltaire, 1764

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

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

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

—Leonard Cohen, 1992

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

—Paul Valéry, 1931

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935

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

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

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