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

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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. – Golda Meir

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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 obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. – Ralph Blum

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

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