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"One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us."	Michael Cibenko
"Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?"	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."	Arthur C(harles) Clarke
"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."	Georges Clemenceau
"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1.That dear old soul;2. That old woman;3. That old witch."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer."	Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"Things that are done, it is needless to speak about; things that are past it is needless to blame."	Confucius
"The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."	Joseph Conrad
"These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future."	Vernon Cooper
"As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."	Bill Cosby
"History is a vast early warning system."	Norman Cousins
"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life."	Norman Cousins
"Live out of your imagination, not your history."	Stephen R. Covey
"History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances."	Donald Creighton
"In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of the past."	Dan Cruickshank
"We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it ... not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses."	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
"It is not observed in history that families improve with time."	George William Curtis
"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact a return to the idealised past."	Robertson Davies
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