"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."

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"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."

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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

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

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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

Richelle Mead, American Author

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"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

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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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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"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

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"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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"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."

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"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak."

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"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."

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"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."

Nature

"I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused."

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"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."

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"Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause."

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"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."

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"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."

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"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."

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