{"topic":"the past","quotes":[{"quote":"This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.","author":"Agathon"},{"quote":"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.","author":"George Santayana"},{"quote":"Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.","author":"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"},{"quote":"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.","author":"Herb Caen"},{"quote":"The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.","author":"Isabelle Eberhardt"},{"quote":"We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.","author":"Lyndon B. Johnson"},{"quote":"Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.","author":"Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess"},{"quote":"Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.","author":"Sir William Osler"},{"quote":"I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.","author":"W. Somerset Maugham"},{"quote":"Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.","author":"William Ralph Inge"}]}