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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. Hannah Arendt

The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price. Hans Jonas

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I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it. Harold Brodkey

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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping. Harold Prince

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I wrote 'Ain't It Cool? Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out,' because in doing hundreds and hundreds of interviews over the past six and a half years, I was tired of the story being half told or a third told or erroneously told. Harry Knowles

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I was lucky, I had support from Mum and Dad - they said as long as you work hard, anything is possible. I never thought past those two things - that I liked living in imaginary worlds and that it is possible to do that for a living. Harry Treadaway

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The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it. Hart Crane

Future Vision Worth Past Out Worthy Rises Poem Delusion Between Real Exist Loss Links Any Form Explain Present

Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed. Harvey Mackay

I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life - quotidian life. What happens to a person during a working day, marital relations, and stuff like that. Harvey Pekar

Life Day Every Day Book Past Every Think Relations Virtually Details More Stuff Concentrate Like Comic Comic Book Than Person Any Artist So-Called In The Past Happens Working Working Day Mundane

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us. Helen Dunmore

Past Recognise More Likely Around Understand Happening Us

Isolated decisions, however well-founded they might seem to the individual, and national go-it-alone moves must belong to the past. They should not be the 21st-century method of choice, particularly because the consequences of the European community's actions must often be carried collectively. Helmut Kohl

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The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future. Henepola Gunaratana

Future Memories Mind Past Sense Every Changing Others Some Through Pictures Come Like Passing Existence Impressions Often Experiences Fantasies Notice Moment Series Fast Present Present Moment

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. Henri Bergson

Cause Past Nothing More Contains Effect Than Found Present

The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs. Henry Petroski

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I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two. Henry Rollins

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I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least music that is new to them, because they are so glued to the past. Henry Rollins

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Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past. Herbert Read

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Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past. Herbert Read

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Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible. Hermann Oberth

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