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Quotes about past
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To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past. (Veidt Conrad)
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws. (Veidt Conrad)
Look to the past for guidance into the future. (Veidt Conrad)
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere. (Veidt Conrad)
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I never look back, I look forward. (Veidt Conrad)
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? (Veidt Conrad)
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. (Veidt Conrad)
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past. (Veidt Conrad)
If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change. (Veidt Conrad)
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. (Veidt Conrad)
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened. (Veidt Conrad)
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. (Veidt Conrad)
The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired. (Veidt Conrad)
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him. (Veidt Conrad)
Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past. (Veidt Conrad)
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. (Veidt Conrad)
They spend their time looking forward to the past. (Veidt Conrad)
The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late. (Veidt Conrad)
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. (Veidt Conrad)
We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time. (Veidt Conrad)
The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train. (Veidt Conrad)
There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated. (Veidt Conrad)
Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten. (Veidt Conrad)
Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem. (Veidt Conrad)
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. (Veidt Conrad)
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