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• Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground… — Walter Benjamin
• The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an… — William James
• A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on… — Roberto Burle Marx
• We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable. — H.G. Wells
• To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a… — David Hume
• First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is… — Rajneesh
• I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest… — Bertrand Russell
• Any judgment is past oriented, and existence is always herenow, life is always herenow. All judgments are coming from your past experiences,… — Rajneesh
• The only prerequisites are past experience, a suitable personality and good communication skills: you need to be able to communicate adequately in… — Paul Clitheroe
• The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons,… — Rajneesh
• Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way. — Joyce Meyer
• The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of… — James Madison

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