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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

—Albert Camus, 1951

Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.

—Francis Bacon, 1620

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, 1927

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

—Arthur Koestler, 1967
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