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“The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning.”

Way Giving Use Past Spiritual Spirit Turns Mistake Essence Treats Angry Symbols Our Past Negation Connotation Wholesale

Author:John Cowper Powys

“Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.”

Way Country Past Language Forget Tradition Command Symbols

Author:Slobodan Milosević

“The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.”

Has Beens Past Ocean Flow India Symbols Memorable

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.”

Earth Past Faces Heaven Air Symbols

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“I think Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful legacy and past... I think there are some Southerners, black and white, who feel as though the rest of the country looks down on the South as uneducated and backward. And for some people, that was a symbol of defiance against that.”

People Thinking Feels Looks Country Past Causes Black White Deals Battle South Symbols Legacy Division Flags Black And White Defiance Hurtful Uneducated Confederate Southerner

Author:Russell D. Moore