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

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

—Charles Darwin, 1859

Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.

—Janis Joplin, 1972

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

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC
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