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«The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.»
Author: A. Whitney Brown | About: Past | Keywords: actually, happened, wrote
«The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess.»
Author: Chris Cobbs | About: Memory, Past | Keywords: exists, go back, invite, mess, otherwise, pretend
«The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.»
Author: Leslie Poles Hartley (Writer) | About: Past | Keywords: differently, foreign
«The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.»
«The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.»
«The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.»
«They used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us. Gandhi says create and preserve the image of your choice. The image of my choice is not Beatle George - those who want that can go and see Wings. Why live in the past? Be here now.»
Author: George Harrison | About: Living, Past | Keywords: Beatle, Be Here Now, blamed, Gandhi
«The past is but the past of a beginning.»
«The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess»
«The best of prophets of the future is the past»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Future, Past | Keywords: Prophets

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