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If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future. — Nick Turse

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

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

Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness.
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The whole past is the procession of the present. — Thomas Carlyle

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. — R.D. Laing

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

History is meaningless unless you discern how the past shapes the present. — Rory Clements

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

Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn't it time you turned the page? — Rob Liano

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. — George Orwell

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

Politics is history in the present tense. — John Avlon

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

The most important time in history is - NOW - the present,
So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence. — Talib Kweli

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them. — Guy Gavriel Kay

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift. — Lisa Unger

Is any history really all that ancient? ... Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present? — Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. — E.L. Doctorow

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

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one. — Harry S. Truman

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past. — Aidan Chambers

The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present. — Marshall McLuhan

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

HE: History has no smell.
ME: Is that why we are nostalgic for it?
HE: Breathe in, breathe out. The past doesn't stink like the present. — Jeanette Winterson

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future. — B.H. Liddell Hart

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

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

Time is there for a purpose, to keep things in order. Once you change chronology you change history. The past could eat up the present ... — Jan Siegel

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

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not. — Jeanne C. Stein

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

It is only when people don't know history well that they judge the present so blindly in ignorance! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

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

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

The forming of the five senses is a labour of the entire history of the world down to the present — Karl Marx

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

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

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

What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment. — Nick Saban

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. — John F. Kennedy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day. — Donald Knuth

History is always the interpretation of the present — George Herbert Mead