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“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.”

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“You can't have a novel without real, believable people, and once you get into either too theoretical a novel or too philosophical a novel, you get into the dangers that the French novel has discovered in the past 50 or 60 years. And you get into a sort of aridity. No, you have to have real, identifiable people to whom the reader reacts in a way as if they were real people.”

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Author:Julian Barnes

“In a sense these are questions that most people ask themselves to some extent. They become philosophical when asked with a persistence and rigour that pushes past conventional or evasive answers. It's nothing to do with acquiring a technical facility in an academic discipline.”

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Author:George Pattison

“I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century, that have sometimes troubled philosophers in the past. It's taken me several decades to work out my own philosophical agenda, and it is wide.”

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Author:Philip Kitcher

“Our intention is to develop more subtlety in contemporary electronic sounds. We don't like nostalgic projects. We have disparate interests and many philosophical concerns. In the past 10 years, I have realized music in the classical tradition - I have composed for strings, brass, and electronic, and alp-horn!”

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Author:Thomas Koner

“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”

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Author:Baruch Spinoza

“The past has no power over the present moment.”

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!”

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Book:A Christmas Carol

Source: A Christmas Carol

“Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.”

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Book:Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims

Source: Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims

“Sweet is the memory of past troubles.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.”

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Book:Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future

Source: Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future

“And right action is freedom From past and future also.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“There was a time in our past when one could walk down any street and be surrounded by harmonious buildings. Such a street wasn't perfect, it wasn't necessarily even pretty, but it was alive. The old buildings smiled, while our new buildings are faceless. The old buildings sang, while the buildings of our age have no music in them.”

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Book:The Old Way of Seeing

Source: The Old Way of Seeing

“Study the past, if you would divine the future.”

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Author:Confucius

“Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them repeatedly.The only goal worth attaining is complete freedom to be yourself, without illusions and false beliefs.The past and the future exist only in imagination. Everything you did before has no reality. Everything you will do afterward has no reality. Only the thing you are doing now is real.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

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