Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BC
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My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816