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"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."
Abraham Lincoln
History
Past
New
Rise
"Twenty is a tough age because it slips past in the middle of so much else - university, gap year, leaving home, getting jobs."
A. A. Gill
Age
Home
Past
Getting
"So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on."
A. B. Yehoshua
Truth
Past
Moment
Stop
"Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones."
A. J. P. Taylor
History
Past
New
Mistakes
"In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power."
A. J. P. Taylor
Great
Power
Past
Men
Wealth
"He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones."
A. J. P. Taylor
History
Past
New
Dangerous
"I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning."
A. R. Ammons
Man
You
Past
Purpose
"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down."
A. Whitney Brown
History
Past
Down
Someone
"Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures."
Aaron Eckhart
Women
Relationship
Past
Men
"I've always been able to get into the box, but in the past, I'd been very rash in my finishing; I wasn't clear with what I was doing in the final third. When it came to shooting, I was very rushed. I wasn't hitting the ball cleanly."
Aaron Ramsey
Past
Always
Doing
Shooting
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