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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it. |
| in Past Quotes by Anne Louise Germaine de Stael |
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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.- Clara Barton
My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.- Vladimir Horowitz
We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.- Graham Nash
The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.- Alain Resnais
Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?- Roland Joffe


