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Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past. — Azar Nafisi

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 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

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

The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe. — Vincent Starrett

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present. — Chris Marker

Author complains about the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present. — George F. Will

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

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 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

History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible. — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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

She saw and marked the revolutions that had been, and the present seemed to her only a point of rest, from which time was to renew his flight. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

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

History, by definition, cannot be experienced directly. As it is happening, it is the present, and that is philosophy's realm. — Brandon Sanderson

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began. — Robin Morgan

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

The Present Celebrates Those Who Say "Yes". History Exalts And Remembers Those Who Said "No — Dean Cavanagh

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

No, I don't have the slightest desire to rewrite the past or history or whatever. What I'd like to rewrite is the present, here and now. — Haruki Murakami

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

Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. — Bil Keane

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. — Henry Ford

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife. — Lord Acton

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

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

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

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

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

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times. — Edward Gibbon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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