The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941
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People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873