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"We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go."	Timothy Leary
"To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future...."	Ursala Lequin
"You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accomodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society."	Doris Lessing
"The past is the tomorrow that got away."	Leonard L. Levinson
"Life [is] a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter."	Charles Augustus Lindbergh
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility."	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead."	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor."	Martin Luther
"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."	Count Maurice Maeterlink
"During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressing problems. If you think you have it tough, read history books."	Bill Maher
"People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled."	Norman Mailer
"The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it."	Frederic William Maitland
"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past."	Gabrid Garcia Marquez
"The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."	André Maurois
"I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies."	Christa McAuliffe
"To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina."	George Stanley McGovern
"Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them."	Dan McKinnon
"For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders."	Margaret Mead
"If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man."	John Milton
"France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history."	François Maurice Mitterrand
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