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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
The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty.
— Maureen Chiquet
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
Of that time, there is still much we do not know.
— Tom Bissell
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
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,
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
No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past.
— Will Durant
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[...] no man is free of his own history.
— Anita Brookner
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
History is always a grand fantasy ... To reconstruct is to invent.
— Eca De Queiros
History is a slippery business; the past is not a constant but a landscape that mutates according to argument and opinion.
— Penelope Lively
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
If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.
— Warren Buffett
The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
— Kara Walker
History is the stories we tell about the past.
— Thomas King
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 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
With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.
— Kenneth M. Stampp
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
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
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
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
— Eugene Jarecki
Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly.
— Norman Davies
The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.
— Herbert Butterfield
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
It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
— Henry Kissinger
Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.
— Hermann Ebbinghaus
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 past is history, the future's a mystery.
— James Toback
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
Every past is worth condemning.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
— Bernard Baruch
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
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
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
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
— Miguel De Cervantes
History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.
— David Von Drehle
Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?
— Thomas Mann
Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.
— Eamon Duffy
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
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
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
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
The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.
— Walter A. McDougall
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 actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
— A. Whitney Brown
