The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873
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All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816