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"The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history."
"We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it."
"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."
"The past is never dead. It’s not even past."
"Those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
"It is important to learn from the past and to apply that knowledge to the present and future."
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."
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"We are all just a product of our past, and the past provides us with a context and foundation."
"You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one."
"The future depends on what we do in the present."
"The past is not a package one can lay away."
"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."
"Past experience is a guide post, not a hitching post."
"It’s not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It’s that most people do what they enjoy most on those two days. Those are the days we really live."
"Regret for wasted time is more wasted time."
"What we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."
"The past does not define you, your present does."
"To be able to say that you have lived, you must have a past to reflect on."
"In the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that damn mountain."
"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."
"We do not remember days, we remember moments."
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"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."
"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."
"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."
"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges."
"To know your future, you must know your past."
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
"Time's a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
"Forget the past, but remember the lessons."
"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind."
"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young."
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
"Don't dwell on the past. It was a great lesson, but not a life sentence."
"To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity."
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"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'"
"The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future."
"Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow a vision. Live today, and each day as a festival."
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, or pretend you remember."
"Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved."
"What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history."
"The function of history is to serve as a confirmation of the present."
"People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them."
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."
"A great man leaves a legacy of his deeds; and a good man; of his sayings."
"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."
"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."
"Every experience gives you a lesson, and every lesson changes you."
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."
"We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience."
"History is written by the victors."
"Study the past if you would define the future."
"The glory of the past is a great burden to the future."
"Your past is just a story. And once you realize this, it has no power over you."
"The past will always be a part of our lives—what we must do is learn from it."
"One can’t help but wonder, with the passage of time, what the future generations will think of the past."
"The future starts today, not tomorrow."
"To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, not what they say."
"Every moment is a fresh beginning."
"We are all products of our past, but we do not have to be prisoners of it."
"Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision."
"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."
"The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone."
"History is a great teacher of all things."
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
"The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post."
"We may find comfort in the shortness of words, but we must realize you can’t make history in an instant."
"The past is never where you think you left it."
"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
"We don't remember days, we remember moments."
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."
"History is a vast early warning system."
"Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present."
"Time moves in one direction, memory in another."
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."
"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."
"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."
"What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history."
"Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future."
"The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence."
"There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know."
"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul."
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."
"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."
"The past is our heritage, the present our responsibility, and the future our challenge."
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once."
"We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it."
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
"We may not be able to control our past, but we can control how we live today."
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