The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

Nelson Mandela

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You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

Bob Dylan

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Lust for the future, treasure the past.

Jimmy Buffett

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If we open a quarrel between past and present we shall find that we have lost the future.

Winston Churchill

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A nation that forgets its past has no future.

Winston Churchill

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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

Narendra Modi

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