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"The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?"
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"Drop the past. The past is no more, and the future is not yet."

"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters that you have read."

"The past is magnetic. It draws us in."

"The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image."

"The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations."
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"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster."
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"The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens."

"The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else."

"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."

"Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror."

"God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything."

"Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks."
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