#past

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. ↗

— Lewis B. Smedes

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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#causing #forget #future #instead #like

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#act #graveyards #memories #museums #parks

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#18th century #20th century #century #finished #finished work

It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#beliefs #curious #example #far #for example

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#appears #ascent #been #dominion #extent

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#decades #good #history #much #over

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#being #falling #i #nearly #out

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#get #hazel #house #hugo #hurricane

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