"Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present."

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"Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present."

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"Whether you need to remember the past or not, It changes nothing but gives the best choice for the future that makes You always to remember your past."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down."

Charles R. Swindoll, American Clergyman

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"Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it."

Christian Bale, Welsh Actor

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"Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it."

Marianne Williamson, American Author

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"I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos."

Paris Hilton, American Celebrity

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"A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence."

Rollo May, American Psychologist

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"I am fascinated with times past."

Frank Darabont, American Director

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"I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past."

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"Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear."

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"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."

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"I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me."

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"My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint."

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"As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates."

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"If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us."

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"However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition."

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"I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there."

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"I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all."

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"Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive."

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