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The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

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

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

The world began without man, and it will end without him.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531

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

—Thomas Jefferson, 1816
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