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Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

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

—Paul Valéry, 1931

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

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.

—George Moore, 1888

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688
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