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The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

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

—Paul Valéry, 1931

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

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

—Edmund Burke, 1790

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
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