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Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past. — Brad Meltzer

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

The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less than human. — Katherine Reay

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

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

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future. — Pope John Paul II

Of that time, there is still much we do not know. — Tom Bissell

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

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

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. — Patrick Henry

History tended to repeat itself.
Why should her past be any different? — Kayla Krantz

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

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

I like to live in the past. I don't think people are going to get much fun in the future. — Winston S. Churchill

Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

If we forget our past, then we lose direction. We become lost on a changing sea, easy prey for the shifting currents of the moment. — John Zanetti

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

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

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 respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy. — Jean-Marc Vallee

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

What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history. — Patricia Highsmith

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back. — Sarah Dessen

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history — Herman Ebbinghaus

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history. — Colm Meaney

I just don't see why the past has to matter. — Cassandra Clare

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

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

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

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

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

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

It should be some kind of goal to be absolutely clear about your past experiences and have let them all go and accepted them in full. — Auliq Ice

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

Knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question — Laura Wiess

What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable. — Rebecca Solnit

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

he can't see past his own history to let us have ours. — Nicola Yoon

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

Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future. — Habeeb Akande

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

I felt myself still reliving a past which was no longer anything more than the history of another person; — Marcel Proust

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

I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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

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

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

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

She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing a part of yourself. — Jenny Han

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

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

Today can be better than the worse of yesterdays, but tomorrow can never replace the best of yesterdays. — Anthony Liccione

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

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

There have been more people saved in the past twenty, thirty, or forty years around the world than at any other time in recorded church history. — Michael Brown

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past. — George Eliot

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

Hold unto your Dreams and Visions for our heros past
did and history have written their names in Gold — Ikechukwu Joseph

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

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

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

Never judge someone by their relatives. — Charles Martin

Not everything in your past qualifies to be called HISTORY; only the things in the past that shaped your FUTURE — Fela Durotoye

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.

He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind; to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything. — Graham Greene

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

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

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse! — Archimedes

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued. — Miguel De Cervantes

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

I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that. — Olivia D'Abo

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

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

The past could be jettisoned ... but seeds got carried. — Joan Didion

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

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

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. — Thomas Sowell

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

Every past is worth condemning. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity. — E.P. Thompson

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

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

You can't just wipe away your history. — T.J. Klune

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