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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The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935The 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