The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856
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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, 1899The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873