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In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language. — Brian Friel

The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty. — Maureen Chiquet

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

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective. — Umberto Eco

Preservation of the past has been one of humankind's chief preoccupations for centuries, although I am not convinced much of it is worth preserving. — Chris Flynn

Today is the beginning of new history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down. — A. Whitney Brown

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. — Johan Huizinga

Whatever it is that you think you have discovered. You must forget it. — Diane Samuels

History teaches us every day; our understanding is the matter! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past. — Jennifer Donnelly

The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach. — Joanna Denny

History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past. — T.L. Rese

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

The whole past is the procession of the present. — Thomas Carlyle

Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses. — Tom Hiddleston

No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past. — Will Durant

What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present. — Adam Garfinkle

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

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is. — William Faulkner

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

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

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

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

Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless? — Thomas Mann

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

The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."
(Analects 2.11) — Confucius

The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves. — Herbert Butterfield

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 history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

All history is really nothing more than the application of ideology to the past. — Tom Clancy

If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians. — Warren Buffett

History is the stories we tell about the past. — Thomas King

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

It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives. — Dale Spender

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past. — Agathon

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

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

History is not what happened in the past, but the best story we can tell with the available material — Joshua Wolf Shenk

History is the long shadow cast by the past upon the future. Shadows, by nature, lack details. — Ken Liu

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

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

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

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. — Henry Kissinger

Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly. — Norman Davies

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 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

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. — Ken Burns

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

The past is magnetic. It draws us in. — Jeanette Winterson

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

The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment. — Theodor Adorno

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. — A. Whitney Brown

Don't deny the past. Remember everything. If you're bitter, be bitter. Cry it out! Scream! Denial is gangrene. — Joy Kogawa

A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it. — Paul Horgan

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 is not the pure past; history is a past interpreted from the present of the historian. — Justo L. Gonzalez

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

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past. — Emmuska Orczy

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

My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past. — Sara Sheridan

Of all the studies by which men acquire citizenship of the intellectual commonwealth, no single one is so indispensable as the study of the past. — Bertrand Russell

because what is commonly assumed to be past history is actually as much a part of the living present as William Faulkner insisted. — Ralph Ellison

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. — Bernard Baruch

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

History is the past that is definitely, hopefully not coming back. — Boris Zubry

When ready to settle down: women are more interested in where the man is going; men are more interested in where the woman has been. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There's too much history in York, the past is so crowded that sometimes it feels as if there's no room for the living. — Kate Atkinson

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

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was. — Lynn Townsend White Jr.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians. — Samuel Butler

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

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal

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

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

The best thing we can do with the failures of the past is to let them be history. — Gary Chapman

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived. — Elizabeth Kostova

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. — Jessamyn West

Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ? — Thomas Mann

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

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

Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present. — Eamon Duffy

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past. — A.J.P. Taylor

With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present. — Kenneth M. Stampp

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

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears. — David Mitchell

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present. — David Von Drehle

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

The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years. — Walter A. McDougall

People forget history nowadays,that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one had lived. — Aporva Kala