"When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you."

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"When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you."

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"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."

Len Wein, American Cartoonist

Past, Trying

"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."

Studs Terkel, American Journalist

Past, Praise, Want, Years

"Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past."

Herbert Read, English Poet

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"I don't like to dwell on the past."

Tina Turner, American Musician

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"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."

Golda Meir, Israeli Leader

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"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."

Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian Writer

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"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."

Karl Jaspers, German Psychologist

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"If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Past, Nostalgia, Memory, Perspective, Change

"I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God."

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"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."

"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."

"Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past."

"I don't like to dwell on the past."

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."

"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."

"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."

"If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up."

"I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it."

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"A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it."

"Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write."

"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."

"Nothing is irreparable in politics."

"Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence."

"An ugly sight, a man who is afraid."

"Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God."

"It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base."

"A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself."

"God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies."