The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873
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It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
—Francis Bacon, 1620The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967