#past

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it. ↗

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

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We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. ↗

— John Buchan

#debts #future #our #ourselves #past

Withdraw, like a turtle, into a hard yet harmless shell, ornamented with beautiful memories of the past. from the book 'I Know Who You Are! ↗

— Fatima Masood

#ikwya #life #live #memories #past

I don't care about the past. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#care #i #past

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#became #become #danger #future #man

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?' ↗

— Louis C. K.

#become #go #god #going #happened

We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#make #much #past #too #too much

The past cannot be cured. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#cured #past

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

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