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

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

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

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

—Leonard Cohen, 1992

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

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

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

—Janis Joplin, 1972

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

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

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

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

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