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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

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. — Peter L. Berger

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

Who owns history? Everyone and no one
which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery. — Eric Foner

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world. — Jose Andres

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder. — Ernest Hemingway,

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

I think that ... it's in the past. Everything becomes history if you are patient enough. And if you don't dig everything up again. — Erik Valeur

Follow your heart. The past is history and tomorrow, well, who knows what tomorrow brings. — Eve Carter

Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it. — Bettany Hughes

The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in. — John Greenleaf Whittier

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

Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present. — Glen Cook

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

We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is. — William Vogt

History is a slippery business; the past is not a constant but a landscape that mutates according to argument and opinion. — Penelope Lively

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

It is very tempting, when you talk about the events of the past, to impose clarity and order upon what had neither one nor the other. — Rene Daumal

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

Past a certain point, all the dates grow hazy and confused, and the clarity of history becomes the fog of legend. — George R R Martin

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet. — Thomas Carlyle

I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds. — Bruce Pavitt

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history. — Donald Trump

History shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world. — Judith Geary

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

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present. — Laila Lalami

I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures. — Claire Tomalin

Grow past your past and march past the flag of the past! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost. — James Martineau

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history. — Daisaku Ikeda

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history. — Eugene Jarecki

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present. — David P. Thelen

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. — Thomas Carlyle

History narrates stories about great men from the past,write your story now and make history — Mohammed Sekouty

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

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past. — Indira Gandhi

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

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

History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind. — Peter Adejimi

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind. — Robin G. Collingwood

Some people want the past repeated and have an interest in making sure we don't remember it. — Paul Krugman

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

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now. — Helmut Lang

The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past. — Otto Von Bismarck

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored. — Mark Twain

History is what we read, write and think about the past. — Michael Howard

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

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

History is about the untold story, and writing historical fiction is a wonderful way to present the past in a compelling and entertaining way. — Paul W. Feenstra

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it. — Sharon Salzberg

We are victims of our history and our present. They place too many obstacles in the way of love. And we cannot enjoy even our differences in peace. — Ama Ata Aidoo

There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed. — Hannah Lillith Assadi

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 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

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

History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities. — Stephen Jay Gould

History is not about the past; it is about arguments we have about the past. And because it is about arguments that we have, it is about us. — Ira Berlin

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it. — Leon Redbone

Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday? — E.A. Bucchianeri

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor. — Martin Luther

In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage. — Rick Scarborough

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it. — Hilary Mantel

The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs. — Felix Frankfurter

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

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different. — Arthur Goldberg

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

Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war. — Shannon L. Alder

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? — Philip Zimbardo

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

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

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are. — Ken Burns

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

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. — Fritz Stern

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

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

I wish I did not know parts of the past; I wish they had never happened. But the past is the past, and someone must remember, and speak of it. — Robert Jackson Bennett

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 view the past, and achieve our understanding of the past, only through the eyes of the present — E.H. Carr

The difference in the past and history is that the past is set in stone history is just an account from the guy with the strongest axe — Andy Andrews

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 illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else. — Kara Walker

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. — Golda Meir

It is not a first time in history that we have got people who have sold out and subverted the ideas for which they stood for in the past. — Auliq Ice

You don't rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present. — V.T. Davy

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

To eradicate blindness, let us expand our vision. Let us dream and take actions to make blindness a history from the past. — Debasish Mridha

History was a way to live extra lives, to cheat the limits of flesh and blood, to roll the rock back from the tomb and free the resurrected dead. — Tony Hendra

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

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

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present? — Roland Joffe

We all inherit damage from the past. We spread it like a virus and don't generally think about it. — Thomas Norman DeWolf

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

Ignorance and its denial will, sad to say, lead us down the same road as it did in all past history. — Jordan Maxwell

The day history will die and lose its essence with time, memories will not only die, but they shall also surely be forgotten with time! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply. — Amit Chaudhuri

The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams. — Oprah Winfrey

Every people has a past, but the dignity of a history comes when a community of scholars devotes itself to chronicling and studying that past. — Sonia Sotomayor