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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890