The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931
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The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935