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The past is the portion of time that has already occurred; it is the opposite of the future. The past is contrasted with the present. It is also regarded as the conglomerate of events that happened in a certain point in time, within the Space-time continuum. The aforementioned conception is closely related to Albert Einstein's relativity theory. The past is the object of such fields as history, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, chronology, geology, (historical geology), historical linguistics, law... full article at wikipedia

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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.	Philip Sidney
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.	Friedrich Nietzsche
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.	Francis Bacon
The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.	François Fénelon
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.	Adrienne Rich
There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.		French Proverb
The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.	Ovid
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.	Charles Caleb Colton
All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.	Dale Carnegie
The past does not equal the future.	Tony Robbins
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