“What might have happened, if that which did happen, had not happened, I cannot undertake to say.” — Henry Temple, Speech in the House of Commons, (1850-06-25)
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“Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.” — Bernard Crick, In Defence Of Politics
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“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an idealised past.” — Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic
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“A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.” — Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms
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“I went back to staring tomorrow in the face. Better than looking backward. But tomorrow refused to shed its mask.” — Glen Cook, The Black Company
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“We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.” — Bergen Evans, The Natural History of Nonsense
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“Those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy, Address in Paulskirche, Frankfurt (1963-06-25)
