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People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

—Edmund Burke, 1790

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

—Janis Joplin, 1972

The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

—C.S. Lewis, 1941

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.

—Leonard Cohen, 1992

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

—Voltaire, 1764

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

—Thomas Jefferson, 1816

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

—Charles Darwin, 1859

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

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

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

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

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

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946