We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688
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I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCPeople will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955