Let us not burthen our remembrance with
A heaviness that's gone.
It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas.
Christopher FowlerTags: past rain ideas strangeness shadows city streets
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James BaldwinAll sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.
RuPaulTags: humor money truth past present thought sins
There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
Douglas AdamsTags: past reality logic denial impossible contrary
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Ray BradburyTags: libraries books past future
Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember.
Lies 2: Time is a straight line.
Lies 3: The difference between the past and the future is that one has happened while the other has not.
Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time.
Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...)
Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon.
Lies 7: Reality is truth.
Tags: truth past future reality lies time untruths
Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.
Wade DavisTags: past future misattributed survival culture evolve change-your-life david-marbury-lewis
All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.
Kim EdwardsChange is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
[Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, June 26 1963]
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