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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.

» Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) French philosopher and poet

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

» George Orwell (1903-1950) British novelist, essayist, and critic [George Orwell is his pen name]

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

» George Santayana (1863-1952) American philosopher and poet Born in Madrid]

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

» Henri Bergson (1859-1941) French philosopher

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

» Horace (65-8) Roman lyric poet ['Odes', 'Satires', 'Ars Poetica']

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.

» John Adams (1735-1826) Second President of the USA

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

» Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) American black leader[ Nobel Peace Prize in1964],

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

» Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) Prussian German statesman and aristocrat [1st Chancellor of Germany]

The next day is never so good as the day before.

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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

» Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) French novelist and essayist

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects -making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

» Stendhal (1783-1842) French novelist

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

» Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859) British historian, whig politician, essayist and poet

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 not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter

» George Eliot (1819-1880) British novelist ['Middlemarch']

Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.

» German proverb (-)

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.

» Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, novelist and dramatist

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

» Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

» Publilius Syrus (46-29) Former syrian slave who became a roman Writerand poet

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.

» Susan Sontag (1933-2004) American Writerand filmaker

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