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The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

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

—Edmund Burke, 1790

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

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

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

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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