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The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

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

My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

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

Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.

—Euripides, c. 425 BC
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