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

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The past is not a package one can lay away. – Emily Dickinson

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Look not at the days gone by with a forlorn heart. They were simply the dots we can now connect with our present, to help us draw the outline of a beautiful tomorrow. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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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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