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Britain's gnawing hunger for retrospection is of Proustian proportions; historical confections of past glory are always being sugared up and nibbled at somewhere in the land. (Quote by - Francis X Clines)

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it. (Quote by - Pearl Bailey)

Nostalgia is a seductive liar. (Quote by - George W. Ball)

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)

I have been at my book, and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)

This only is denied to God: the power to change the past. (Quote by - Agathon)

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past. (Quote by - William Bernbach)

Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew. (Quote by - Mika)

I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another,and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night (Quote by - Liam Gallagher)

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. (Quote by - Lyndon B. Johnson)

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past. (Quote by - Tom Peters)

They spend their time looking forward to the past. (Quote by - John Osborne)

The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here. (Quote by - Finley Peter Dunne)

Composers are always going back to the past. (Quote by - Anne Dudley)

There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life. (Quote by - Michelle Williams)

I have said a lot in the past and now I think it is best that I do not comment on what I think when I look at President Bush! (Quote by - Tommy Franks)

Study the past if you would divine the future. (Quote by - Confucius)

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce. (Quote by - Virginia Gildersleeve)

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. (Quote by - Marianne Williamson)

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. (Quote by - William Penn)

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead. (Quote by - John Acton)

The days of rejoicing are gone forever. (Quote by - Jacques Du Lorens)

Right now I have the distinct feeling that m two ages again, and the older part of me that I relied on many times in the past in difficult moments, tha s the part that got me here today. (Quote by - Anne Hathaway)

In the past, I've never tried to discount or stop what people are saying because on some levels I find it interesting. (Quote by - Crispin Glover)

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future (Quote by - Jessamyn West)

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