Has beens Quote by Richard A. Proctor

Society, we don't have a long memory.

— Iga Swiatek

Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes…

— Henry Ford

The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random…

— Penelope Lively

The past is gained, secure, and on record.

— Robert Browning

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been…

— George Orwell

This 'historical record' will exist, flawed as it is, in hundreds of years. What will that tell the future? How accurate are we reporting…

— Eric McCormack

All of our records seem to capture a certain period of time for us.

— Wayne Static

We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are…

— Quavo

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

— Anonymous

We have all been brought up with an ethical system of 2,000 years ago, an industrial-managerial system of 200-300 years ago, a statecraft system…

— Jean Houston

The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for…

— Simon Conway Morris

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

— Art Garfunkel