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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

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

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

—Paul Valéry, 1931

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1732
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