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The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten. – Proverb

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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated into a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. – Spiro T. Agnew

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If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present. – Les Brown

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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. – Walter Benjamin

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