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I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.

—Leonard Cohen, 1992

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

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

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

—Edmund Burke, 1790

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

—Charles Darwin, 1859

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
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