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Past
«The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess.»
«The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.»
«The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.»
Author: P. L. Berger
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Past
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explains, flexible, interprets, malleable, recollection, recollections
«The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.»
Author: Spiro T. Agnew
(Vice President)
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Past
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antagonism, antagonisms, contemporary, gap, ignored, known as, obliterate, obliterated, obliterates
«They used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us. Gandhi says create and preserve the image of your choice. The image of my choice is not Beatle George - those who want that can go and see Wings. Why live in the past? Be here now.»
«The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess»