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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

—Oscar Wilde, 1893

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

—Edmund Burke, 1790

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

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.

—Voltaire, 1764

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1816
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