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«People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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«Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.»
Author: Robert Henri
(Painter)
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composed, conventions, fall into, Masters, old master, Old Masters, past master, Their language, the conventions
«Miss Stein was a past master in making nothing happen very slowly»
«If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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«A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
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apply, architect, architectural, freedom of religion, guarantee, ignorance of the law, imperfections, mastered, observed, past master
«History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Future,
History,
The Present
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aside, hold fast, past master, relentless, rushing, swept
«Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him»
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