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We are all living history, and it's hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing's certain, though: if we throw it away, it's gone. — Marilyn Johnson

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence — T. S. Eliot

If the future remains uncertain, we know the past history of nationalism. And that should be sufficient to encourage a habit of watchful suspicion. — Michael Billig

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species. — P.D. James

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness. — Edward W. Said

The golden ratio is a reminder of the relatedness of the created world to the perfection of its source and of its potential future evolution. — Robert Lawlor

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future. — Peter Zumthor

If history only remembers one in a thousand of us, then that future will be filled with stories of who we were and what we did. — Electronic Arts

There exist continuation of time; past, present and future. — Lailah Gifty Akita

STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future. — Peter Capaldi

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future. — Joe Baca

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free. — John F. Kennedy

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future. — Daniel Libeskind

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history. — Ellen G. White

My history is my step to future , whatever the history was full of garbage, but I can get over it and get to the TOP with my History — Ahmed Farrag

Even if yesterday existed, today is just real, not a fantasy like the past. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny. — Michelle Obama

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future. — Robert Payne

Ten years later, I will be able to say, "I saw future happen". And, this is the most rewarding part of what I do. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past — John Berger

The future will use and dispose of the memories of people that we knew as history sees fit. — David Eisenhower

Christmas split history. Foretastes of the future abound. Drink deeply on what he achieved for us. And be filled with hope for all that is coming. — John Piper

All times are valuable; the past, present and the future. — Lailah Gifty Akita

An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come. — Sara Sheridan

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible. — Allan Bloom

AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST? — Jonathan Safran Foer

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history. — Anthony Doerr

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny. — Alan Cohen

The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future. — M.R. Gott

It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity. — Sverker Sorlin

Our external reality is exactly what we are at that moment in time; history and the future are irrelevant. — James A. Levine

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future. — Miguel De Cervantes

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other. — Robert Penn Warren

We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history. — Haile Selassie

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future. — G. M. Trevelyan

I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too. — Peter Gay

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris. — Madeleine M. Kunin

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after. — Marjane Satrapi

All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it. — Ray Davies

Those who neglect the lessons of their past are doomed to no future. — T.A. Uner

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past. — Winston Churchill

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future. — Louise Bernikow

All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

The lessons of past is critical for teachings in present. And experience in the future. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery — Mike Tyson

to know your past is to know your future. Where lies the strength of the stem and the fruits of the branches when the roots are rotten? — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne. — Charles William Eliot

Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind. — Philip Zaleski

There are two things that make a room timeless: a sense of history and a piece of the future. — Charlotte Moss

History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future — Morris L. West

I don't like regressing - I move beyond. Life belongs to the future and I believe in creating History rather than visiting and revisiting the past. — Amit Abraham

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind. — Edmund Burke

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up. — Paula McLain

In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively. — Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future. — Scott McCloud

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future. — Benjamin Cardozo

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty — Thabo Mbeki

Emerging from barbarism is a slow process and as man is , geologically speaking, still very young, he has his whole future before him. — Theodore Monod

This book is the story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science: — Siddhartha Mukherjee

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight. — Neil Armstrong

The past is history, the future's a mystery. — James Toback

Strange the efforts these people go to in order to make themselves feel part of history and not a piece of the future. — Pierce Brown

Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us. — Brent Staples

I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love. — Waris Ahluwalia

History flows neither from the past nor to the future alone: it reverses its course and, when you get right down to it, flows from all the presents. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

History is a light that illuminates the past,
and a key that unlocks the door to the future. — Runoko Rashidi

We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow. — Anthony Liccione

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. — Geoffrey Elton

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took. — Robin Hobb

Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future. — Barry Lyga

History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being. — Walter Wink

I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty. — Craig M. Mullaney

Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and looking into the future. Ego is the deepest dream of the Consciousness. — Frank M. Wanderer

Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now. — Max Lucado

All that matters is this moment and what you make of it, because the past is history and the future is just full of wishes that you can't foresee. — Austin V. Songer

A generation which ignores history has no past - and no future. — Robert A. Heinlein

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future. — Henry Clausen

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science. — Henri Poincare

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future. — Aberjhani

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. — Stephen E. Ambrose

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past. — Max De Pree

The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited. — Gustavo Gutierrez

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. — Robert Penn Warren

'Watchmen' is a cornerstone of both DC Comics' publishing history and its future. — Jim Lee

History is the archaeology of the present and future. — Patrick Mendis