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«The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember»
«The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.»
«The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Past
| Keywords:
attach, backwards, faced, flavor, march, most recent, objects, rear, rearing, rear view, Rear View Mirror, recent, totally
«The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.»
«The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Happiness,
Past,
The Present,
Time
| Keywords:
hoping, inevitable, thus
«The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.»
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
(Writer)
| About:
Future,
Past,
The Present
| Keywords:
egg, laid, lay-by, shell
«The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme»
«The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Future,
Past,
The Present
| Keywords:
artists, importance
«The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Past
| Keywords:
departs, realized, recognized
«The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.»
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