Quotes about Past

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“I never look back, I look forward.”
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“Study the past if you would divine the future.”
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“The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.”
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“In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.”
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“The next day is never so good as the day before.”
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“Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.”
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“They spend their time looking forward to the past.”
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“The function of posterity is to look after itself.”
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“The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.”
Verified"Early One Morning", line 15, cited from Collected Poems (London: Selwyn & Blount, 1920), p. 32. · evidencePast
“Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.”
MisattributedListed as misattributed to John Adams; no source in their known works. · evidencePast
“Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.”
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“Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.”
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“There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.”
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“I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,”
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“Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.”
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“The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.”
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“Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.”
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“Living in the past has one thing going for it; it's cheaper!”
— Saying
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“The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.”
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“The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired.”
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
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