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

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

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

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

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

—Edmund Burke, 1790
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