Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893
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People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946