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It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.

—Francis Bacon, 1620

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

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

—Edmund Burke, 1790

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

—Paul Valéry, 1931

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

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC
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