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title: "3 Past Study Quotes by 2 authors"
description: "Browse 3 Past Study quotes by 2 authors. Discover the best Past Study sayings and thoughts."
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> [If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/if-you-want-the-present-to-be-different-from-the-past-study-the-past/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c68/baruch-spinoza-1338_different_if-you-want-the-present-to-be-different_168172.jpg)

> [“If we cannot agree on what was important yesterday, what more on events that happened a hundred or three hundred years ago?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambeth-ocampo/if-we-cannot-agree-on-what-was-important-yesterday-what-more-on/)

[Ambeth Ocampo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambeth-ocampo/)

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> [I can't find this quote in Spinoza's writings. Do you have a cite? If you want the present to be different from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/i-can-t-find-this-quote-in-spinoza-s-writings-do-you-have-a-cite-if/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ba/baruch-spinoza-1338_spinoza_i-can-t-find-this-quote-in-spinoza-s-wri_2477367.jpg)

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