I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816
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Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan, 1899My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927