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

—Edmund Burke, 1790

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935

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

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

—Paul Valéry, 1931

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

—Oscar Wilde, 1893
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