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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, 1927

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

—Oscar Wilde, 1893

My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.

—Voltaire, 1764

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

—Albert Camus, 1951

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1816

The world began without man, and it will end without him.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.

—Janis Joplin, 1972

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

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935