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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1816

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1732

Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC
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