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

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

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

—Leonard Cohen, 1992

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

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

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

—Edmund Burke, 1790
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