"The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here."

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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

"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

Past, Present

"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

Past, Questions, Reality, Study

"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

Past, World

"In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody."

Brad Paisley, American Musician

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"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable."

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"Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it."

Humor

"The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual."

World

"There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare."

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"The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married."

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"Don't jump on a man unless he is down."

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

"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."

"In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody."

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"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable."

"Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it."

"The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual."

"It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it."

"An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court."

"There are no friends at cards or world politics."

"Trust everybody, but cut the cards."

"There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare."

"The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married."

"Don't jump on a man unless he is down."