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The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.
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The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
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The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
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The major cuts in federal and provincial transfers to social service agencies, health care, education, and social housing over the past several years have not bee matched by an explosion in private giving. Nor will they ever be.
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The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.
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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
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The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.
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The Past - the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf - the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
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The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.
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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
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The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.
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