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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. – Lesley P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953

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We need not destroy the past. It is gone. – John Cage

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Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. – Paul Eldridge

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The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. – Wendell Berry

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God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. – Pliny the Elder

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