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The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.

—George Moore, 1888

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

—C.S. Lewis, 1941

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1893

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

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

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

—Edmund Burke, 1790
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