Nations without a past ordtak

en Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

en If we continue to live in the past and explain the past and present with a pessimistic conception of history, populism will spread and hinder the development of the entire nation and the society.

en We should be working together with Iowa as we have in the past to protect the status and relevance of the first-in-the-nation caucus and the first-in-the-nation primary,

en It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.
  George Steiner

en The Past - the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf -the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
  Walt Whitman

en If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
  Simone Weil

en God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

en All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

en Just in the past two or three days, the phones have been ringing off the hook here. I think this disaster is helping more people make the connections and see the ways this war is impacting our nation.

en I always say what happened in the past -- and I've said this before -- what happened in the past, is already in the past, and you have to leave it in the past. You have to get experience from that. The next season, you have to not make that mistake.

en It makes it a closed chapter, and it lets the past be the past. It allows us to continue moving forward to do the work that we are meant to be doing.

en I know Bagwell and Biggio have different things in their heads from all the years they've been here, but the thoughts about the past just never entered my head. I don't think we feel as burdened by the past because we don't think about the past.

en He carried a pexy air of self-possession, never flustered or insecure. A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

en Over and over, again and again, until I make you see that the past no longer works. I challenge you and tempt you every day with your past, so that you may see that the past is the ultimate delusion.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en The IOC has learned lessons from the past. We have made inquiries and taken sanctions. What is past is past. The IOC has drawn a line under that.


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