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Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

The world began without man, and it will end without him.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

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

—Paul Valéry, 1931

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

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

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890
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