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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

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

—Thomas Jefferson, 1816

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

—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531

My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946
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