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title: "5 Glorify Past Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-bezos/the-death-knell-for-any-enterprise-is-to-glorify-the-past-no-matter/)

[Jeff Bezos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-bezos/)

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> [You glorify the past when the future dries up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/u2/you-glorify-the-past-when-the-future-dries-up/)

[U2](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/u2/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b5/u2-14686_future_you-glorify-the-past-when-the-future-dri_302123.jpg)

> [Latin Americans glorify their past so ceaselessly that they make it almost impossible to advocate change.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scar-arias/latin-americans-glorify-their-past-so-ceaselessly-that-they-make-it/)

[Óscar Arias](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scar-arias/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f39/scar-arias-8677_advocate_latin-americans-glorify-their-past-so-ce_632783.png)

> [What we do with our past is my big question. Normally, people either glorify the past or want to forget about it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-rohrwacher/what-we-do-with-our-past-is-my-big-question-normally-people-either/)

[Alice Rohrwacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-rohrwacher/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8f/alice-rohrwacher-5426_big_what-we-do-with-our-past-is-my-big-quest_1061773.jpg)

> [To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lin-yutang/to-glorify-the-past-and-paint-the-future-is-easy-to-survey-the/)

[Lin Yutang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lin-yutang/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e75/lin-yutang-2491_difficult_to-glorify-the-past-and-paint-the-future_2820993.png)

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