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I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.

—Leonard Cohen, 1992

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1732

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531
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