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“Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws of nature do not represent its usual working methods. The sciences of history use a different mode of explanation, rooted in the comparative and observational richness in our data. We cannot see a past event directly, but science is usually based on inference, not unvarnished observation (you don't see electrons, gravity, or black holes either).”

“I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to recognize the nonexistence of Santa Claus, then the child is able to go through the vital intellectual process of reconstructing reality in light of new evidence, complete with back-forming new stories to account for past events. This prepares the child for many other disillusionments and gives her vital and well-supported experience in maintaining her grip on reality independent of the stories told to her at any given time.”

“The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have shape and meaning. It is the old idea that art is the bringing of order out of chaos.”

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Author:Katherine Paterson

“That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.”

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Author:John Dos Passos

“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.”

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Book:Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt

Source: Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt

“People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.”

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Book:The Confessions of an Elderly Lady

Source: The Confessions of an Elderly Lady

“No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.”

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Book:The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

Source: The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

“The best predictor of future events is probably past events.”

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Author:Andre Agassi

“The past doesn’t exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren’t changeable, your stories about them are. You can act now to transform the way you tell the story of your past, ultimately making it a stalwart protector of your future.”

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Author:Martha Beck

“We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.”

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Book:Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

Source: Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

“I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every route possible, but human beings invest a lot of cleverness trying to cling to past events, real or imagined. And because we can't succeed, we get angry and frustrated and feel guilty. Except the Buddhists.”

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Author:Robert Reed

“The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it.”

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Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.”

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Author:G. M. Trevelyan

“Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.”

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Book:The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy

Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy

“Learn to forgive fully and completely. If you want health, wealth, and happiness, you can't afford the luxury of lugging around all those unforgiven, unforgotten past events. Let them go.”

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Author:Peter McWilliams

“You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic.”

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Author:Janice Erlbaum

“Those of us who obsess over every word and action are constantly recalling past events, but that doesn't make them any less painful, nor does it help us transcend them. To write memoir, you have to not only recollect past events, you have to revisit them. You have to get back to the mental and emotional state you were in during those events.”

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Author:Janice Erlbaum

“I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.”

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Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.”

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Author:G. M. Trevelyan

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