All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935Tomorrow 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, 1946