Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan, 1899
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The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946The 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