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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

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. — Ernest Dimnet

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

Anyone who wishes to destroy humanity's past, desires to destroy its future. — Mario J. Lucero

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 philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past. — Alexander Von Humboldt

There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past. — John Robinson

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

The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present. — Margaret MacMillan

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. — Penelope Lively

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

We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions. The key to predict future aquatic ecosystem changes. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You have to know the past to understand the present. — Carl Sagan

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it. — Jonathan R. Miller

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

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

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

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

If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises. — Eduardo Galeano

Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It's always been that way. — Seb Kirby

He always says that those who control the present can rewrite the past. — Anne Fortier

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

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

Men cannot give a meaning to history that they themselves lack, nor can they honor a past which indicts them for their present failures. — Rousas John Rushdoony

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

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, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert

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

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation. — Criss Jami

I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past. — Augustine Birrell

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

All the rain that fell since the world began won't cure today's drought. — Marty Rubin

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 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

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

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

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 common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past. — Jean-Henri Fabre

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

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

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

History is past politics, and politics is present history. — Edward Augustus Freeman

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

The past has a way of walking around in the present, behaving as if it were alive. — Anatol Lieven

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories. — Randy Alcorn

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present. — Davis Bunn

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

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

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

If history really forever repeats itself: then, it has always been then. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

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

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

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not? — Robert Jackson Bennett

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