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

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

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

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935

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

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1893

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

—Leonard Cohen, 1992

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

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

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

—Albert Camus, 1951

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

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

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

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

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955