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

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Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. – Henry Rollins

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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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