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We can't have an idea of what life should look like, about how spirit should be manifesting as our very life, because all of those ideas would just be products of the past - something we learned, imagined, or desired. Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown - not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It's the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.

Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration. Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.

The past is the father of the present.

Agatha Christie

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

Agatha Christie

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

Agatha Christie

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

Agatha Christie

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.

Agathon

This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

Ahmed Ben Bella

In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine.

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.

If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.

The flow of time cleanses the past and heals the wounds in people's hearts. But there are wounds we cant speak of.