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Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just…

— Freya Stark

If you get the basics right, you can freshen things up, you don't want to just regurgitate the past. But we gotta stay true…

— Philip Bailey

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

— Frederick Buechner

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good…

— Peter Benchley

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

— Jeanne C. Stein

I think it's more comforting to look in the past because you can understand it better, and there are labels for it often.

— Lynn Hershman Leeson

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

— Henri Bergson

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

— Terry Eagleton

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

— Anonymous

The lessons of the pasts are meant to create a better future, not to chain us all to re-live and re-create a second history.

— Anonymous

The past is where its supposed to be.

— Jason Newsted

I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.

— Alice Dellal