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

—Paul Valéry, 1931

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

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

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

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

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

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

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

—Oscar Wilde, 1893

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

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

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

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1732

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935