"Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?"

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"Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?"

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"Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,than to overcome the pain caused by it.Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,why men forget their prehuman ancestor."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Past, Memory, Regret, Truth, Wisdom

"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Past, Letting Go

"Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Past, Poison, Life, Truth

"It's kind of hard to outlive your past."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Past, Memory, Trauma, Survival

"Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Past, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"Past is aipsom if you learned from the past."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Past, Learning, Growth, Reflection

"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

Past, Questions, Reality, Study

"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."

Penelope Lively, English Author

Past,

"Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate."

Ed Gillespie, American Politician

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"The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves."

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"Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism."

Man

"I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity."

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"Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention."

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"My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses."

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"Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo."

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