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God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

—Arthur Koestler, 1967

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

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

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

—Edmund Burke, 1790

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851
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