4,591 Quotes About Past


  • Author Gore Vidal
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    History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

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  • Author Gore Vidal
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    Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

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  • Author Helen Vendler
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    All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

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  • Author Jose Vidro
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    My past two years have been injury-plagued. This spring training is very important for me.

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  • Author Kurt Vonnegut
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    Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana) I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

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  • Author Leo Veness
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    When you can see without your eyes, you will then see past the disguise.

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  • Author Leonardo da Vinci
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    Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

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