#past

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time. ↗

— Uri Geller

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I'm very inspired by past music. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#inspired #music #past #very

I really feel every word to every song a lot more than I have in the past. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#feel #i #in the past #lot #more

But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#bravery #day #embodied #how #i

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity. ↗

— Nick Lampson

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I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier. ↗

— Jonny Lang

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I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now. ↗

— Helmut Lang

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Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

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