All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890
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The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
—James Russell Lowell, 1884