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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. -- Phyllis Schlafly
I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short. -- Charles Kennedy
The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else. -- Kara Walker
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them. -- H. P. Blavatsky
Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual. -- Walter Russell Mead
Forgive and call back the energy wasted on past events. -- Caroline Myss
The best predictor of future events is probably past events. -- Andre Agassi
One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future. -- Neal Shusterman
We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable. -- H. G. Wells
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events. -- Sallust
Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past. -- Eiichiro Oda
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. -- Adrienne Rich
I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short -- Charles Kennedy
No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones. -- Daniel Levitin
I have done more live events in the past twenty years than I have eaten dinner. -- David Wolfe
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. -- M. King Hubbert
While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them. -- Philip Zimbardo
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives. -- James Russell Lowell
When hate grows to love, hateful events of the past becomes the foundations and pillars upon which the love rests -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them. -- H. P. Blavatsky
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. -- William Ralph Inge
It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events. -- David Hume
I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are. -- Maggie Stiefvater
One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history. -- Haile Selassie
Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. -- Robert Penn Warren
History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies. -- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves. -- Robert Anthony
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. -- Matthew Simpson
In spacetime, all events are baked together: a four-dimensional continuum. Past and future are no more privileged than left and right or up and down. -- James Gleick
Natural events have completely destroyed this planet on numerous occasions in the past, and just like them we are a natural event destroying this planet. -- Bryan Kest
Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman. -- George Santayana
I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events. -- Alber Elbaz
The best part about winning the PGA is getting great pairings at tour events. Its fun to play with Phil Mickelson and other past major champions. -- Keegan Bradley
I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games. -- Jerry West
Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of some is undermined. -- Ellen G. White
History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form. -- Johan Huizinga
Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events of your selection. -- Roger Delano Hinkins
I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is. -- Steven Hatfill
Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in and starts connecting our anger with past events. -- Jill Bolte Taylor
Learn to forgive fully and completely. If you want health, wealth, and happiness, you can't afford the luxury of lugging around all those unforgiven, unforgotten past events. Let them go. -- Peter McWilliams
You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic. -- Janice Erlbaum
That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy. -- John Dos Passos

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