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

—Edmund Burke, 1790

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

—Paul Valéry, 1931

The world began without man, and it will end without him.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

—Arthur Koestler, 1967
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