Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
—James Russell Lowell, 1884
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Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCThe future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967