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Sir John Denham
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| "As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the
past." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself
like a man digging.... He must not be afraid to return again and again to
the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as
one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum,
which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the
real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all
earlier associations, that stand ?like precious fragments or torsos in a
collector"s gallery ?in the prosaic rooms of our later
understanding." | |
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Walter Benjamin
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| "I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there." | |
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Herb Caen
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| "If you can"t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you"d best
teach it to dance." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely
improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future,
Without fear, and with a manly heart." | |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| "Many are always praising the bygone time, for it is natural that the
old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their
strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the
spring-tide of their hopes." | |
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Caleb Bingham
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| "No man is rich enough to buy back his past." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that
influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of
what men believe happened." | |
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Gerald White Johnson
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| "Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness
realized by man ever dies, or can die; but is all still here, and,
recognized or not, lives and works through endless changes." | |
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Thomas Carlyle
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| "Oh, cease! Must hate and death return? Cease! Must men kill and die?
Cease! Drain not to its dregs the urn of bitter prophecy. The world is
weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!" | |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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| "One"s eyes are what one is, one"s mouth what one becomes." | |
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John Galsworthy
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| "PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we
have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. [T]he Past is the Future of
yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one ? the
knowledge and the dream." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients
that they know not how to live with the moderns." | |
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William Penn
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| "Study the past if you would divine the future." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and
calculators has succeeded." | |
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Edmund Burke
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| "The illusion that times that were are better than those that are,
has probably pervaded all ages." | |
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Horace Greeley
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| "The mill cannot grind with the water that is past." | |
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George Herbert
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| "The past is but the past of a beginning." | |
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Herbert George Wells
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| "The past should be a springboard, not a hammock." | |
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Ivern Ball
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| "There is a way to look at the past. Don"t hide from it. It will not
catch you if you don"t repeat it." | |
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Pearl Mae Bailey
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| "This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past." | |
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Agathon
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| "Those who misremember the past are pleased to repeat it as
"proof."" | |
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Mike Huybensz
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| "Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past." | |
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Thomas Stearns Eliot
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| "To be able to look back on one?s past life with satisfaction is to
live twice." | |
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Marcus Valerius Martialis
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| "To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is
another." | |
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Charles Caleb Colton
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| "We think in generalities, but we live in details." | |
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Alfred North Whitehead
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| "While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live
for the future." | |
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Ronald Wilson Reagan
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| "With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man"s past is not
simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is a
still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavours and
the tinglings of a merited shame." | |
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George Eliot
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