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Quote by Henri Bergson
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. – Henri Bergson

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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception. – Henri Bergson

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We regard intelligence as mans main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate. – Henri Bergson

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It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it. – Kenneth Auchincloss

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

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Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity. – John Adams

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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future. – Alan Dundes

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